Over 10 million children 'work in slave-like conditions'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

Some 10.5 million children are believed to be working as domestic labourers worldwide, according to a new report.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) says that many work in conditions that are sometimes verging on slavery.

The report, released to mark the World Day Against Child Labour, suggests that 6.5 million of these children are aged between five and 14 years old and over 71% are girls.

The report also says many are subjected to physical and sexual violence.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22867808

[BainsBane]

1. There are 27 million slaves in the world now

More than at any point in history. Most are used as sex workers, but they also are forced into labor in agriculture, industry, domestic service, and even war. It's not just slave-like conditions. They are slaves, without ownership or control of their own person. I expect that is precisely what these children are living under.

[midnight]

2. This type of right to work thinking needs to be stopped.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. There would be another 10 million in the US if newt and

the rest of the GOP in Washington had their way.

[duhneece]

4. We stopped child labor (the majority of it) in the US 100 years ago...

How can we end it world wide ...and get these kids/especially girls in school instead? How can we care more?

[KG]

5. let's never forget, the comforts and convenience of the first world is built on the miseries

of the third.