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Innocent Labour

The international community is concerned with consuming the highest degree of political and economical power as possible. Or they’re having a competition over who has the greatest Nuclear program at hand or which Palestinian refugee is climbing over some stupid wall, put up by a bunch of inhumane cold blooded rejects, to enter his OWN land. But they ignore the real issues at hand. There’s a disease right now that’s spreading at a very fast pace and this illness will most probably decimate the future of our world. Innocent children are being stripped of their childhoods and forced to work when they should be sitting in classrooms enjoying the fountain of knowledge. These children are our future; they are the next presidents, doctors, innovators, human rights activists who will someday change the lives of the generations before them and the ones to come.

The practice of illegal child labour is widely practiced in Nepal, they’re known as Kamalaris, children forced into labour at young ages in bad conditions, sometimes leading to rape and death. Really this form of “child labour” is more of child slavery. In the 21st century, after years of innovation, political conquests, and international alliances illegal child labour and child slavery is still taking place in all corners of the world. This alone makes you think what have we achieved as human beings.

More awareness needs to be raised around this issue of forced child labour instead of having one day out 365 days to deal with the issues at hand, to do the research, and find out how many young girls and boys have been killed and sexually and emotionally abused by their owners. We need more than one day to feel sympathy for these children and want to make a change. How about actually taking action every day..maybe our actions will awaken the politicians who sit in their fancy offices behind their desks in their suits and polished shoes unwilling to roll up their sleeves and get dirty.

As an international studies student and one who is extremely interested in looking at the real issues, the global issues, like illegal child labour and child slavery, I want to do more than just sit back, watch the news, and shed a few tears. I would love to be right in the centre of this battle field however I know we should always begin with baby steps and work our way out there. So I will begin with a bit of research on what is being done by international organizations like UNICEF in nations like Nepal where there are more than 25,000 boys and girls forced into child labour and some leading to rape, death, and suicide.

 Sometimes in life we need to take a step back and remember what our roles are as human beings and what our responsibilities are to our fellow human beings who are living in nations, like the third world, where Law has no meaning, where justice is polluted with corruption. These thoughts should lead us to finally waking up and doing something, anything. Sometimes becoming more aware of the issues at hand, of current affairs, opens up that avenue leading to some form of change....
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