Magda K.
I. Citation
“Lebanon’s Vulnerable Child Workers”
BBC NEWS
3/12/08
Child Labor Article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7289634.stm
II. Summary
Children are suffering in Lebanon from working all day in factories to support their families. They work and sweat on the machinery that they’re on for many hours. Children spend even 12 hours to gain a few amounts of money. Even the workplaces are unsafe for kids. These workshops are dirty, dangerous, and unsupervised. The kids’ health are in danger and this is still continuing.
III. Reactions
a) This article reflects to the AP World History Theme: Impact of technology, economics, and demography on people and the environment. This theme is true because Lebanon is in hardship because of their poor political and social structure. Financing should be managed by the adults besides the kids. Many families are struggling from financial problems.
b) This country is in poverty, so parents have to force their kids to work in order to survive. Many families are in debt in this region and it’s really hard to get out of it because of the low pay the workers receive.
c) The point of view of this article are the children laborers. They are the insiders of the issue. A male BBC reporter is writing this article and he is currently the outsider.
d) Children are known as innocent from the public eye. Others disagree like Nayla Mouawad who is Minister of Social Affairs. She quoted, “The street children are dramatically violent, and it is definitely the most fertile ground for recruiting. Any movement, any ideology can take advantage of them.” She believes that the child laborers are violent and that the jobs are fitted for them.
e) In this article, the point of view of Lebanon’s government is missing. I would also need to hear from a family that lives in this country in order to understand more on this issue.
f) I believe that the adults should be working and that the children should be focusing on their education. The government should provide free education to young adults. I also realized that the workplaces should go through safety measures to ensure protection for everyone.
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I think that this is horrible towards the children. Innocent little children shouldn't be involved in bad conditioned sweat shops, working for little amount of money to support their families.
I strongly agree with your opinion on this article. Children don't deserve to work in sweatshops, just because they might have some financial problems at home. If this is this case, the government needs to step in, and offer these families more financial support. Children have the right, and deserve, to receive an education of some sort, so that they will be able to make a life for themselves in the future. I don't understand anyone who can say that these children are violent, and deserve the life they get, as a woman was quoted to have said in the article. Everyone deserves the right to be a kid, and an education!
I like your responses tward the issue. Most people dont't realize the act of child labor also shows how a country or civilization reall lacks a poltical and social structure. It is no just the children being harmed it is everyone. The information provided proves more evidence of our history in poverty. The public eye doesn't always really realize the issue at hand and it is articles like these that help others who are uniformed really take to our intonational world.
I like your responses tward the issue. Most people dont't realize the act of child labor also shows how a country or civilization reall lacks a poltical and social structure. It is no just the children being harmed it is everyone. The information provided proves more evidence of our history in poverty. The public eye doesn't always really realize the issue at hand and it is articles like these that help others who are uniformed really take to our intonational world.
i find the fact that children are still working in sweatshops today insane. children deserve to live a healthy childhood provided by their parents, no matter their income. i believe that it is immoral of nayla mouawad to consider street children as recruits; because they have bad habits and decisions does not automatically qualify them to be used for economical purposes.
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