The International Labor Organization estimates that 250 million children between the ages of five and fourteen work in developing countries. 61% of those children in Asia, 32% in Africa and 7% in Latin America. These children are severely beaten, denied education and most likely scarred for life. Perhaps with hopes of ever being able to escape. Most athletic shoes are made in sweatshops in Asian countries and the factories are filled with children. Other products made with the use of child labor include Toys, Rugs, Chocolate, Bananas, and Coffee. It makes you hesitate taking sip of that coffee. Bananas? Who knew? Even I'm shocked. Toys? That is even worse. Something children are supposed to enjoy becomes something made with forced labor. These children really are denied a normal childhood.
Vegan.com wants to end Sweatshops. How do they hope to do so? By making companies disclose the treatment and pay of workers and how and where products were made. There also needs to be independent monitoring maybe that of the WRC. Also when violations are discovered, the workers need to be protected.
http://www.veganpeace.com/sweatshops/sweatshops_and_child_labor.htm
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