Brazil’s President Bolsonaro boasts of its use of the parental Farm. Child labour seems to be no Problem for him. The reality of millions of exploited Minors from room to room.
For homework this peanut seller on the beach of Rio de Janeiro in no time
“Work prevents anyone from getting ahead in life,” said the President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro recently in a Live broadcast on Facebook. He told the President, have grabs at the tender age of nine or ten years, on the Fazenda of his parents with. Didn’t hurt him in the Slightest.
Children’s work, why not? Other Brazilian politicians think similar to Bolsonaro. The right-wing deputies Bia Kicis wrote on Twitter: “With twelve, I made candy, and the school sold. I had to do that, but was proud to pay for my tennis lessons themselves. I felt creative and productive.”
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro: “child labour is detrimental to anyone”
That you had it, and that it went to the payment of a tennis teacher, are only two points in which the Childhood of the Bia Kicis of many other children is very different in Brazil, says the lawyer for Ariel Castro Alves, of the bodies sits in various national human rights and children’s rights: “Some politicians glorify the children’s work, when they tell how they, together with their parents in the market or in the family business have worked. But that has not prevented with safety in mind to go to school and play.”
Of because of help
He reported of a girl who was forced by her mother and her stepfather, to cook, to clean, and to the younger brothers and sisters to take care of. Food and a bed to Sleep in they would have indulged in only occasionally. In the school she was not allowed to go, so no one noticed the traces of physical abuse at home.
As a domestic violence however, the bubble burst and the guardian, have been sentenced to prison, the girl was just nine years old, says Castro Alves. “The case shows how little the romantic of some politicians to work in their own Childhood, to do with what other children are experiencing memories.”
In search of food, A Boy rests on a garbage dump in Rio de Janeiro
According to a study by the Brazilian statistics Institute IBGE, 2015 land worked in the year, around 2.7 million children in Brazil. This number includes minors between the completion of the fifth and seventeenth birthday, and went to work in the strict sense against pay. Under a broader term that also includes children, who had to regularly work in the household, the study comes to a different result. After that, the child labor rate is above 50 percent.
With parents sugar cane harvest
Recent surveys distinguish more categories, but come to similar results: Several million children work in Brazil. The UN children’s law prohibits Convention, which have ratified except the United States, all UN member States.
The Brazilian Constitution guarantees Minors to protection from neglect, exploitation, violence, and oppression. According to the law, you are allowed to work in Brazil until the age of 16, up to the age of 18 years in hazardous and night-time acquisition are excluded activities.
Nevertheless, many children would harvest under precarious circumstances in the case of the sugar cane, the wood economy, or the charcoal burner has says Castro Alves: “There you are exposed to the risk of serious accidents at work, which sometimes end fatally.”
Anything other than cute: children in the sugar cane days in Campos harvest on a plan
Vicious circle of poverty
According to the Figures of the IBGE, 59 percent of the 2.7 million Affected in Brazil in 2015, boys. Another study comes to the conclusion that in the case of the much more frequent cases of domestic work, 94 percent are girls.
Not every employment is illegal, a vocational training may start as early as 14-Year-old. But: “most frequently, and therefore worrying, Work is taking place anyway in Secret at home, but also in the drug trade or in sexual exploitation,” says Felipe dew from the project “speech Peteca – Chega de Trabalho Infantil” (Dt.: Network Indiaca: put an end to child labour).
Whether legal or illegal, says Tau, the lower income and education level of a family, the more likely child labor is. And thus a vicious enstehe circle. Tau: “Even if you contribute in the short term, significantly to the family income, means the work of a serious threat to the emotional, physical and intellectual development of the child.”
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In the medium and long term, hardly a Chance, the precarious wages and working conditions, to escape where you grew up, was for many children. On the contrary, says the lawyer for Castro Alves: “I know of many cases in which girls start to sell on the street sweets and minors in Prostitution slip.” Young would start sooner or later, to act with drugs.
“The Supreme authority of this country seems not to know or not to want to believe,” says Castro Alves in the direction of the President Jair Bolsonaro: “If he is defending child labour, he defends also their criminal exploitation.”