A life you would not want your children to Labour.

A life you would not want your children to Labour.

Child labor is still common in some parts of the world, it can be factory work, mining,^[13] prostitution, quarrying, agriculture, helping in the parents' business, having one's own small business (for example selling food),

or doing odd jobs. Some children work as guides for tourists, sometimes combined with bringing in business for shops and restaurants (where they may also work as waiters). Other children are forced to do tedious and repetitive jobs such as: assembling boxes, polishing shoes, stocking a store's products, or cleaning. However, rather than in factories and sweatshops, most child labor occurs in the informal sector, "selling many things on the streets, at work in agriculture or hidden away in houses—far from the reach of official labor inspectors and from media scrutiny." And all the work that they did was done in all types of weather; and was also done for minimal pay. As long as there is family poverty there will be child labor.

According to UNICEF, there are an estimated 250 million children aged 5 to 14 in child labor worldwide, excluding child domestic labor.^[15] The United Nations and the International Labor Organization consider child labor exploitative,^[16][17] with the UN stipulating, in article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child that:

...States Parties recognize the right of the child to be protected from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child's education, or to be harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development. Although globally there is an estimated 250 million children working.