Corrections

Child exploitation

• Child exploitation is one the principal problems that the society faces.

• In the XIX century, during the Industrial Revolution, many children worked 14 or more hours a day at the factories and they were paid only a fraction of what an adult would get.

• They had to work with dangerous equipment, so accidents were very common and many of these children got injured or they even died.

• Nowadays this situation isn't very different.

• It's true that during the last century governments across the world have developed a legislation to prohibit child labour, but it continues to exit.

• According to Unicef 168 million children aged 5 to 17 are engaged in child labour, in other words, 1 of every 6 children in the world suffers child exploitation.

• Child exploitation can be in presented different forms like slavery, child soldiering,drug trafficking or sexual exploitation.

• At present there are around 300000 children who fight in a war, in India there are 12,6 million children caught by child trafficking networks, there are 8 countries which still haven't legislated against child labour (Somalia, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Maldives, Marshall islands, Myanmar, Tuvalu y Turkmenistan), etc. These figures are chilling: child labour affect children’ health and personal development and interfere with their education, so the children can’t improve their personal situation and they are trapped in a vicious cycle.

• There is still a lot to be done against child labour, but we can start to make aware people about this horrible problem.