United+Mexican+State's+Position+Paper(1st+Draft)

By Jairo López

Commettee: International Labor Organitation. Topic: Child Labour Country:United Mexican State

In almost all cases of child labour is because families are poor and in poor cities.The child la bour is the work that the children do for the suport of a family,when they have less than 16 years. I think that child labour occur in Mexico because of many different causes; the most important ones are the poverty and because the child have to help his/her parents.

In Mexico, 3.6 million children and adolescents between 5 and 17 years of age are working according to the Child Labor Module on the National Survey of Occupation and Employment. This is equivalent to 12.5% of children in this age range. Of these, 1.1 million are under 14 years, ie, have not complied with the minimum working age marked by the Federal Labor Law.

The Child Labour module responds to the need for updated data to determine the extent of child labor in Mexico, and that efforts had been made in this respect had not been consistent or periodic comparative analysis and the latest information Available lasted almost ten years.

To finish with this problem Javier in his annual May Day speech last week, Mexican Labour secretary Javier Lozano `pledged to eradicate child labour and impose `` the quick application of workplace law´´. But with thousand of poor families dependent on the money that their children bring in, experts say it is an uphill battle.  According to the Internacional Labour Organization (ILO), currently 218 million children working worlwide, and one in 12 are exposed to the worst forms of child labor, among which six: agriculture, soldiers, sexual networks, domestic service, mining and quarrying, and trafficking of children.

Not grow as our economy and poverty continue to dominate in our fields and our cities, child labour can not disappear. Will remain a country where wealth more valuable, as is his childhood, continue to be victimins of child pornography, organ trafficking, explotation in landfills, agricultural fields, minig sites, in markets, supply centers in sweatshops and on public streets.

The explotation of children has been a production system similar to slavery, tolerated and supported by various companies in many countries. Both highly industrialized with a major economy, but also more notably, by the poor or so-called thrid world.

Most of the children of Mexico who work done for reasons associated with the need to provide resources to the home. The Convention on the Rights of the Child states "the right of children to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that may be hazardous or to interfere with their education, or to be harmful to their health or their physical, mental spiritual, moral or social development. " Convention No. . 182 of the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour acknowledges that protect girls and boys requires integrated responses that include employment and decent work for parents and social protection measures that help to keep girls and boys in school.

One example of Child Labour in Mexico is this: Mexico City: Ten years old Adriana Salgado spends her days in a field northewestern Mexico, picking the spinach, cabbage and other vegetables that fill American salad bowls. Adriana does not know how to read. She attends school for only one hour a day.

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