According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), more than 200 million children in the world today are involved in child labour, doing work that is damaging to their mental, physical and emotional development. Children work because their survival and that of their families depend on it. Child labour persists even where it has been declared illegal, and is frequently surrounded by a wall of silence, indifference, and apathy. But that wall is beginning to crumble. While the total elimination of child labour is a long-term goal in many countries, certain forms of child labour must be confronted immediately. Nearly three-quarters of working children are engaged in the worst forms of child labour, including trafficking, armed conflict, slavery, sexual exploitation and hazardous work.
PSI Asia Pacific Youth Network
Young people are one of societys most important assets, a powerful source of energy, creativity, and innovation, young people can make crucial contribution to the public services, well-being of the societies in the changing environment of globalisation in the services sector they live in, just recognised and appreciated them as part of the important societies as other
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