Republic+Of+Croatia's+Position+Paper

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Commettee: (ILO) International Labour Organization. Topic: Child Labour. Country: The Republic Of Croatia.

Child labour is defined as work that private children from their childhood, and that is dangerous to physical and mental development.

Not all the work that children do is considerated child labour. Activities and works that do not affect their health, that don’t put in danger their personal development, and do not interfare in their schooling, is generally positive for them. This includes, activities such as helping their parents at home or earning some money during school holidays. These kinds of activities helps to children’s development, they learn lots important things for his adult life. The International Labour Organization projects that for the year 2000 there will be 0 economically active children between the ages from 10 to 14. But some countries still having this problem, some people use children as slaves. There are five main problems within child labou r: Child slavery,child trafficking,child prostitution and pornography,children in crime and children soldiers. In Croatia the main problems are child trafficking, child prostitution and pornography and child in crime. Croatia is a transit country, and a destination country for girls that are trafficked to other countries for prostitution. The trafficking of girls for prostitution has increased because of the deployment of international military forces and the opening of Eastern European borders. In 1998 there were 5.442 reported cases of juvenile crime that is the 9.70% of all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 15 cases of murder, 98 cases of serious assault, 5,778 cases of all types of theft, 4,865 cases of aggravated theft, 230 cases of robbery and violent theft, 4, 682 cases of breaking and entering, 1,488 cases of other theft, 18 cases of fraud, 34 cases of counterfeit currency offences, 505 cases of drug offences. Croatia don't have so much child labour as other countries for example the poorests ones, so Croatia is helping does countries, and if all the countries within the UN help those countries without stopping paying attention to their own problems and putting and creating new laws for not allowing this problem no more, the child labour will dissapear, also giving some money to does countries as economical support and using it to stop the poorness that is one of the main reasons why people used child labour. Because it is very easy to having child working because of different reasons like for example because they do not have contract so their "boss" can dissmissed them when he want, paying them a low salary under the limit or directly stop paying them. It so easy to say it, and lots of political people talk of those things and they don't do anything so they are lying to the country and the society because talk it so easy the really difficult thing is to act and the people realize it, but only some few ones are doing things, are acting, like Croatia, in which the president "Ivo Josipovic" aided by all the goverment and the prime minister "Jadranka Kosor" that ruled over a goverment based on democracy are creating new laws trying to prevent it. So that's why most of the people in croatia believe the goverment. I thing that all the people and all of us want the best for our country and we want a goverment that hear and understant us, and a goverment thinks like we think, because in my opinion the child labour is terrible and I am sure that the goverment of Croatia has the same opinion that I,so I'm relaxed because I see that the goverment is doing everything that is in his hands.

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