Ukraine`s+Position+Paper+(1st+Draft)

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Committe:International Lavour Organisation. Topic:Child Lavour. Country:Ukraine.

Child lavour is defined as an excesive and harmful work,specially physically which is done by oung children.The definitions of child lavour depend on the age of children: -From ( 5-11 ) years is at least 1 hour of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work a week. -From ( 12-14 ) years is at least 14 hours of economic work or 28 hours of domestic work a week. -From ( 15-17 ) years is at least 43 hours of economic work or 43 hours of domestic work per week. Child lavour is a problem which affect specially to developing countries, aproximatly about 215million children in countries al over the world have to do excesive work under the worst conditions like mining or working in agriculture all the day.Nowdays child lavour problem is specyally concentrated in Asia like India and Sub Saharian countries such as the democratic republic of Congo. And this is some information of child lavour in general.

In Ukraine child labour is a common problem in which is concentrated in physical works specially mining.In Ukraine, most legally operated coal mines closed down following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Now a lot of families stilldig for coal in ilegal mines where children are expected to do the hardest work in the mine because some families haven´t much money. There are at least 800 ilegal coal mines and probably more mines where children work alongside adults in what the International Labour of organisation has called one of the most dangerous work places in the modern world. Owners of ilegal mines recruit small times of miners who work very hard without fixed hours in unsafe working conditions using primitive hand made instruments. Even the simplest safety measures are: -Emergency exits. -Ventilation. -Gas detectors. -ceilling rein forcement. This are the basic safety measures which need to be in a mine which in use or is not left.Even in some mines the people uses birds to detect gas but it is not enough to have security.

The International Labour Organisation now is working together with the trade union and Ukraine´s goverment to put an end to child labour and create new jobs in Ukraine for the people who live from the money the children which work for them doing hazardous works to obtain the coal. A lot of families don´t work and live in the countryside. This people dug mines in their lands or gardens and create mines from 10 to 15 or more metres in depth where all the family, the husband, the wife included the children works without and with very bad weapons they use to extract the coal and under very bad conditions.

The new goverment is making special efforts to stop these illegal mines and the use of child labour by creating new kinds of jobs in the region. The goverment minister of Ukraine ´´Paulo Rozenko´´ in the year 2005 created more than 100000 jobs in Ukraine which are not conected to ilegal mining. Only 3% of those jobs will be conected to coal mining without child labour and with a lot of safety measures to make Ukranian citizents to see that there are more alternatives in other sphere of economy. Nowdays in Ukraine child labour is not a big problem as many years ago because Ukraines goverment has created commites for children rights but spending on social services in which remains are limited due to the struggling economy and also two thirds of the population lives in rural areas where poverty is spread.

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[|Child labour in Ukraine] [|Unicef] [|We the children]