SEEL Paragraph - Child Labour

Why are children used in labour and how does this take away their human rights and freedom?

Slavery has been around for hundreds of years and is still practised around the world. One of its many forms is child labour. Children are used in labour because of the fact that they are naive, gullible and easily manipulated. Labour using children is cheap for human traffickers due to the fact the children are easily manipulated, as stated and can be convinced that a lot below minimum wage is the most they are going to get. Because of this children work long hours to get the money to live and pay for food and shelter, often meaning they do not get to go to school. This is an objection to their human rights. This work is often considered slave-like because of the terrible conditions they live in. But this is considered voluntary child labour, there is also bonded child labour. Bonded child labour is when, because of a debt or a loan needed to live, the parents of a child bond them to a workforce. There are many different forced they can be bonded to such as making bricks, weaving carpets, doing work in fields and many other forms. The ones I have listed there are the kinder forms of labour as there are worse ones, there are still children forced into being child soldiers, sexual exploitation and drug trafficking. An example of a bonded slave is the famous Iqbal, who worked in carpet weaving in Pakistan. Iqbal was a rebellious slave who had been traded from master to master. After breaking out and joining the Liberation Front he helped free many others like him and arrest the masters and slave traders involved. He received an award for his efforts from Reebok and soon after travelling and giving speeches and receiving the award he was shot and killed. I provide Iqbal as an example because he is the bonded slave used in child labour and he changed the world. In conclusion, we can state that slavery is still active in this world, even if we do not realize it and we barely even acknowledge that it is still happening. Children suffer, with little food and terrible living conditions. The masters they serve to strip their human rights from them and steal their freedom away. This is true child labour.