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child labor in agriculture
When people think about child labor, they are mostly pictures of dark rooms and inhospitable roads in the head. In reality, however, more than two-thirds of all children employed in agriculture - be it as a cotton picker in Egypt, the banana plantations in Ecuador, at the tea harvest in Nepal, or as DEBTOR the cocoa crop in the Ivory Coast. The conditions under which they toil, are mostly the same. At the age of 10 years, they have been working up to 17 hours a day, burning under the sun. They are rarely sufficient by the employer Water made available and they are allowed only during the few breaks to drink. From Ecuador there are reports that workers had to drink from the sewers of the fields that were contaminated with pesticides and fertilizers. Some also try to drink as little as possible, as provided by the operators are no toilets available and they are ashamed before the others. Again and again it comes to injuries with the sharp blades that use the children at harvest. But most of all they suffer from the pesticides with which the fields are sprayed at regular intervals. Although many of these agents are known to be harmful to human health, the minors had to work on plantations, that have just been sprayed, or while the adjacent fields were sprayed. Much of then suffered from headaches, vomiting or diarrhea. Of the long-term consequences, such as cancer, sterility silent to mental damage or birth defects in offspring altogether. The children were informed about these episodes but not in any way - one of the girls said: "Pesticides Is this the medicine that they spray on the fields No, I have no idea?." It is also the daily routine that they are beaten by superiors when they talk to strangers about their activities, make mistakes or work too slowly. are especially girls from sexual assault of older workers are not sure. Their reward remains mostly back below the legal minimum wage and is also dependent on the amount picked.
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