Today is World Day Against Child Labour

While toady's date- June 12 may mean different things to different
people, Every year on June 12 the World Day Against Child Labor is
observed to raise awareness of the plight of child laborers world-
wide. Hundreds of millions of girls and boys around the world
are affected.
Child labor is a problem in both
developing and industrialized
countries.
The World Day Against Child Labor is a global observance and not a
public holiday.
Child labor is especially rampant inmany developing countries - but
even in industrialized nations manychildren are forced to work.
According to UNICEF, children in the United States "are employed in
agriculture, a high
proportion of them from immigrantor ethnic-minority
families." There have also been a number of incidents of westerns
companies exploiting child laborersin developing countries to save
production costs.
In 2011, there were an estimated 215 million child laborers in the
world - 115 million of which were involved in hazardous work. To
combat child labor around the world the International Labour
Organization (ILO) initiated the
World Day Against Child Labor in 2002.