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Working children: should we prohibit, permit or promote it.

For many years various international institutions (such as Unesco or the goverment) have fought against child labor, saying it is a way to exploit them. But since 1976 in Peru there is an organization of children and adolescents who are clamoring for their right to work, ensuring that through work they can get different skills, knowledge and social abilities.

* What is your personal position on this issue that concerns us all, in one way or another?
* If you were the minister of labor in your country, what position would you have to child labor.

Topics: Children's issues adult children children fun human rights working children
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    Noveed Hussain

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    Jul 8 2012: Working of children can be allowed only if they are being provided with the other facilities like education and secure environment to work otherwise i think no way.
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      Krisztián Pintér 200+

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      Jul 8 2012: so in an area with no schools, no factories, no roads, no tools we should make children sit tight at home, wait for the aid, and if it does not come, die in hunger?
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        Debra Smith 200+

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        Jul 10 2012: Is this the Austrian economic's suggestion?
        Is this why it is not taught in mainstream economics. Hyperbole-Krisztian?

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