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Committee: International Labor Organization Topic: Child Labour Country:The Argentine Republic

Argentine is a poor country, that is why almost two million of children under the age of 15 have to work to help or to maintain their families. Almost 48% of people is very poor in Argentine and 9% is unemployed, so children have to work for a munimun salary. Poverty is a big problem, this is the main reason that children have to work, they have to help their families, although they only work fo a little amount of money or food.

The most common jobs are construction, farming, making clothes and shoes, cleaning houses and sreets, and even prostitution, this is most common in girls, although boys also are being prostituded. There are also organised gangs that take children and force them to work in exchange of a few coins. Thoose gangs also take the children ang sell them to factories. Children may have mental, physical and emotional problems, because they have to make things that a children won't have to do, like transport heavy things, being insulted, and they cannot go to school, so in the future they won't have a good job. At first governemment was not doing anything because it was not so important, but in those years the number of children working has increased, so now politics and governors are trying to eradicate it by making more laws and rights They have rights to avoid child labour, but there is one right that says that children between the age of 14 and the age of 18 can work with their parents autorisation, but they cannot work with toxic materials, they have to have two free days every week, and they have to give a medical certificate which says that they have the capacity to work.That is a measure to prevent child labour. There are many organisations that are helping the country to prevent child labour but at the moment they are not very efficient, because the child labour is improving more and more. The education skilled worker of UNICEF, Elena Duro, said 'Child labour reproduce the poverty, it does not solve it. A child that works and leave the school to improve the conditions of his family`s life will be an adult not qualified that only would apply for bad paid jobs.'

One solution would be giving well paid jobs for adults so children do not have to work and they can go to school. But it would not be possible because the government and the people would need a lot of money, so they have to wait for help from other countries and organisations.