Using the information sources below be prepared to discuss some or all of these questions:
In what circumstances can working be beneficial to children?Can child labour help children and their families escape poverty? Can you find some examples?
Can child labour keep a child and their family in poverty? How? What are the long term effects that child labour can have on a child and its family?
Consider the social, economic, mental and physical effects.How might increasing trade openness make it harder to trace and monitor the use of child labour in complex global supply chains? Who should be responsible for child labour in supply chains?
A.Families who sell their children to farmers or miners of raw material
B.Governments and business who do not check and enforce existing child labour laws.
C.Businesses who do not check/enforce international norms and standards banning the use of child labour in their supply chains.
D.Consumers who buy low-cost goods from developing countries where child labour is used in to extract raw materials and, in the manufacturing, production process.
E.The international community
F.Some or all the above What might be some of the social economic legal and organisational challenges of enforcing a complete or partial ban on child labour? Imagine you had to find potential solutions to resolve the issue of child labour in supply chains. What solutions might you propose and why?
