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Committe: International Labour Organization Topic: Child Labour Country: The Republic of South Africa

Child Labour is the work that the children do for the economic production and the economic support of a family, these child labour is watched in poor countries but also in the developed ones. The children worked a lot and they have several problems like unhealthy, also they didn´t have a properly education. In South Africa these happens in every part, my country is affected by the topic very much because here one of three children are working, most of them are under the age of fourteen. In South Africa the families wanted to have many children, the reason is of cultural belief and obviously of religion too, a lot of children died and the families have many children to worth the misfortune, sometimes the children abandon their families to search a job in any part of the country, these happens with frequency. A cause of that Africa is the poorest continent of the world all the countries that have also have the same problem like South Africa. The usual jobs that the children do in South Africa are hard works.

A international Program of the OIT to the eradication of the children work, the best one about child labour, is a great program that was created on 1992, the IPEC programs were the important things that help to take away the work of seventy countries but South Africa is not one of them, are trying to do it, but the poor conditions don't help in these decision so they keep the idea of the child labour. The president of South Africa is called Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma and is the representant of the African National Congress, he loves child and he wanted to stop these hard works but at the same time he realized that in South Africa are not very many people to work so they need the help of the child to know what they need to do when they became older.

I think in many forms to stop child labour, the first one is doing a TV program about what is happening there and explaining that the poor children dont have many times food, problems with the health and every child needs funny moments that don't have working. In these cases the countries of the world are going to help us to reduce child labour, the organizations also help like the UNICEF. The second one is giving more money to their parents and have a great life and if the problem of the children that don´t work is because the school is paying money, South Africa can talk with a organization and gave free classes. Child Welfare South Africa is an important one in these country because they help many children thay works hard and also are reducing the child labour but only a little bit.

Estadistics of Child Labour in South Africa 5-14 years Female 57.9 5-14 year Male 69.9 5-14 Total 63.8

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