Child Labour

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st trade. The emancipated body digging out soil in mines and quarries. The girl working as indentured servant in a private home. The child scavenging in dumpsites. The runner helping distribute illegal drugs. The nubile girl working as a dancer in a nightspot, and the teenage starlet exposing mere skin than necessary on the theater screen. Truly, child labor has many faces. It is a work performed by children either endangers their health or safety, interferes with or prevents their education, or keeps them away from play and other activities important to their development. Children have rights. Government bureaucrats and the do-gooders tell us that. But we look around and we see a widespread denial of those rights. We can’t deny the fact that every year, the number of child laborers increases. “International Labor Organization estimates that the government place the number of child laborers in the country at eight hundred thousand (800,000), but actual figures may be as high as five million (5,000,000). ” This simply shows that there is a drastic number of problems on child labor in the Philippines....