Bolivia´s child labour problem
- Luís Fernandes
- Oct 25, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 23, 2021
Mafalda´s text pointed and stated carefully that the United Nations has the responsibility to make international pressure on the countries that aren't following basic human rights.
However international pressure can´t solve it all therefore there are still many countries especially underdeveloped ones that don't respect these same rights for many reasons ranging from economic to social.
I´m here to talk about one example: Bolivia´s child labour laws
Bolivia has the world's lowest minimum age for child labor: 10. At that young age, children can work legally for themselves or their families.
The controversial law passed in 2014 is unique in the world, but three years later the government is still struggling with how to implement the regulation and protect children from abuse and exploitation.
The International Labour Organization has urged Bolivia to repeal the child labor law, but it´s supporters say children have the right to work.
My take on this problem is that we live in a world that puts economic growth above people's quality of life. If governments don't take action by making laws that protect children, companies and people will exploit and take advantage of them for the single purpose of making profit.
This is a huge problem that we face today not just in Bolivia but in all underdeveloped countries. These countries don't have much regulation and laws to defend their workers from being exploited so multi corporations take advantage of that lack of regulation and exploit their workers by not giving them a stable wage and putting them to work in unsafe workplaces.
If we want a real change to these same countries like Bolivia first the government has to change its laws because after all children are being exploited because it's legal, of course i think it's unethical to make children go to work but companies don't care about their workers but their profits.
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