See images like the one above shrinks our hearts. Children carrying heavy loads of sun to sun is the situation that unfortunately millions of children around the world live when what they should be doing is playing and learning.
Today the whole planet is celebrated on World Day Against Child Labor, that is why from Babies and more we want to join the denunciation of this terrible reality.
Forced labor and child exploitation is common currency throughout the world. As the organization Save The Children said no country gets rid of child labor. Not only is it a problem in developing countries, but in Western countries like Spain there are also cases, although it is very difficult to detect them.
The data is alarming. Nowadays there are 218 million working children worldwide, half of them do dangerous work, 40 million work as servants and more than 8 million do so in slavery.
The conditions of slavery include trafficking in children, sexual exploitation for commercial purposes, forced labor, forced marriages, work in the mines or in the countryside, child soldiers and domestic slavery, a very difficult form of submission to identify it is "inside the door".
Children work up to eighteen hours a day, receive abuse and beatings, work illegally, degradingly and dangerously, undermining their fundamental rights and depriving them of the right to school, their only chance of getting out of poverty.
Some experts point out that the figures have dropped and that in eight years child labor will be eradicated in the world. It is hard to believe, but even if it were possible, meanwhile, who returns the childhood to these children?
