Child Labor In Mexico

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The Struggle of Child Laborers “No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses,” said Raul Castro, a cuban politician who is currently serving as the 18th President of Cuba. All over the world people abuse human rights and nobody’s rights are 100 percent safe including the rights of children. Children and teenagers word hard each day to either help support their families or human trafficking. Mexico has one of the biggest child labor forces in Latin America. Child labor in Mexico is a human rights violation for many reasons. First, when children are forced to work they do not get an education. Second child laborers do not get a full and lively childhood.
First, when children are forced into labor they lack an education. To begin, at least eight out of 100 children in Mexico who enroll in elementary school do not attend classes. A study released by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2015 states that the children who do not show up at school are most likely to be working. Out of all …show more content…
According to Victor Inzua Canales, a faculty member at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (National Autonomous University of Mexico) or UNAM for short, children and teenagers between the ages of five and 17 should not work because they have yet to experience a childhood. A study conducted by UNAM has revealed that 3.6 million children (ages five to 17) are employed representing 50 percent of all working children in Latin America. Children of the same age range, usually work 35 hours per week or more than 7 hours a day. Out of 2.48 million 60 percent are involved in work that in dangerous for their health, safety or morality(1). Furthermore, children are doing adult work, working long hours and are therefore are going straight to adulthood and skipping over childhood. All children deserve to have a childhood no matter the condition they are

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