What can be done to stop child labour in developing countries? E-Book

Xenia Strackbein

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject Business economics - Business Ethics, Corporate Ethics, grade: 2,0, EBC University Hamburg, language: English, abstract: In this work the reasons for child labour will be explained and the question of the responsibility will be answered. In order to answer the question "What can be done?" possible actions will be pointed out. It is also important to present different organizations which try to stop child labour. Moreover, the author gives an overview of the distribution of child labour in the world and in different sectors and shows two examples for child labour in Asia. According to a statement of the United Nations Organization, 218 million children around the world between 5 and 17 years are employed as full-time workers, often under hazardous and dangerous working conditions. This fact shows the importance of combating child labour.