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Opinion | Child labor is not fair, but trade can be | Israel today

2022-06-11T21:07:45.967Z


You will not send your children to work • But what about those rented children, for example, the cobalt in the Congo from which our phones are made? • There is a solution to this, and it is even in your hands


No.

Who are we to judge those who employ children?

Why should our morals suit everyone?

There are cultures where this is acceptable.

These are the answers you get when you ask the question in the title.

Is there a single parent in the world who will send his child to work and not to school, if he has enough money?

Unequivocally, no.

The only reason for child labor is poverty.

Only a poor person will risk the future of his children in order to survive.

Child labor is the reality of 115 million children in the world up to the age of 14. 115 million boys and girls work daily instead of going to school.

Today marks the International Day Against Child Labor around the world.

Although we do not see the children working in the fields outside our homes or in factories in Israel, we have contact with them.

The same kids work growing cocoa in the Ivory Coast, picking the cotton for the garment we wear, and mining the cobalt in the Congo from which our phones are made.

We consume every day the produce of the suffering of these children.

We can also consume products that are not child labor - Fair trade is a mark found on products and ensures that a decent salary is paid to the workers who made them.

The proper salary they receive, when we buy fair trade, is enough for them so that they can choose to send their children to school.

Villages that have moved to work under fair trade conditions and received decent wages send 90% more of their children to schools compared to a parallel village that does not work under fair trade conditions.

It depends only on us, only if we start making sure to consume fair trade products.

How do you identify the fair trade mark?

He looks like a man holding his hand up in black, surrounded by blue and green.

Whenever you come across a daughter it will also say FAIRTRADE or Fair Trade next to it.

It is found on products such as "Ben & Jerry's" and "Chocolate" chocolate that can be found in every kiosk and marketing chain in Israel.

Israeli companies need our "push" to move to work under fair trade conditions, thus helping more children to have a "normal" childhood without daily suffering.

It's not that hard.

It just requires us to choose, when we go to the supermarket, fair trade chocolate, fair trade coffee and fair trade tea.

Child labor is a bad thing.

None of us can even imagine his little boy working, or his little sister working.

Every boy and girl in the world deserves a good childhood.

The least we can do - demand, remotely, fair trade.

The author is the CEO of the Israel Fair Trade Association

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Source: israelhayom

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