Question

Mgmt exam

10. What are the reasons other countries use child labor? Are the reasons ethical and do your ethics change for use of child labor in other countries as opposed to the US?

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Some of the countries are still using the child labour to give a push up to their economy.

The International Labour Organization (ILO), a U.N. body, estimates that the numbers of children being sent out to work in the harshest and most dangerous types of jobs have been cut in half since 2000 and says that an increasing number of countries are adopting legislation against child labor every year. But implementing those types of laws is difficult in countries beset by poverty, war, and human trafficking.

There are some countries like Eritrea ,Somalia,North Korea,Myanmar,Uzbekistan etc   which use child labour for mining their ores as child labour costs cheeper .An increasing number of boys and girls, especially those from rural areas, are victims of sex trafficking to larger cities or sent to work as beggars in Thailand.Uzbekistan has become internationally infamous for state-sponsored forced labor in the cotton industry.In Afganistan ,Despite nearly 13 years of American military occupation and untold billions in development assistance, child labor remains endemic in Afghanistan. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, children as young as six can be found working in brick-making, carpet-weaving, mining, and construction. As in the factories of the Industrial Revolution, children are often used for the most dangerous tasks and are at high risk of being killed or maimed in mines or construction sites, according to the same report.

The exact number of child laborers in Afghanistan is not known, but children often find themselves working in Afghanistan’s booming underground economy. Children have been found working as drug mules, soldiers, and in commercial sexual exploitation. Girls, often forced to marry young and denied access to education, have been found in domestic servitude or forced into prostitution by their husbands. this shows that there are still countries which promote child labour which is UNETHICAL in all ways what ever may be the reasons and NO my ethics do not change for use of child labour in other countries as opposed to in USA .