Effect Of Child Labor Cases
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Combating Child Labor in the Philippines
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Children are indeed among the most vulnerable members of society. Children have weak bargaining power, are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation and, therefore, require special protection from work that is detrimental to their well-being. Child labor involves any work performed by a child that subjects the child to economic exploitation, or that is likely to be hazardous for the child, or that interferes with the child's education, or that is harmful to the child's health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or psychosocial development. Child labor has long-term repercussions as it inhibits the development of a country's human resources, reduces the lifetime earnings of individuals, and lowers the level of labor productivity. Overall magnitude child labor Worldwide, it is estimated that there are 352 million economically active children ages 5-17 in 2000. Meanwhile, there are some 211 million children ages 5 to 14 at work in economic activity. They represent less that one-fifth of all children in this age group. About 73 million are less than 10 years old. In the Philippines, the National Survey on Children (NSC) indicated that there were about 4 million economically active children aged 5 to 17 years in 2001, which constitutes 16.2 percent of the total population of children in the same age group...