GA-C3R1: Child Labor


Resolution on: Child Labor
Submitted  by:  The Republic of Ireland

THE GENERAL ASSEBLY,
01  Outraged by the numerous incidence of child labor worldwide,

02  Alarmed by the fact that 40 percent of all child deaths in the United States result from
03  agricultural labor,

04  Disheartened that children in rural areas abandon proper schooling to work in the fields,

05  Disgusted by the deplorable working conditions that children are subjected to in child
06  labor camps,


07   1.Calls upon the development of an international organization to work to end child labor
08  and put children back in a safe, educational environment;

09  (a) with financial help from the United Nations International Children's Endowment Fund
10  (UNICEF), the International Labor Organization (ILO), and the non-political organization
11  known as Save the Children,

12   2.Authorizes the foundation of an international organization to combat the growing
13  problem of financial burden among families, so that the extra income created by the child
14  is not such a necessity;

15   3.Declares that an international organization will be developed to monitor the working
16  conditions of all work environments; 

17   4.Recommends that the jobs being filled by children be offered to able-bodied adults in
18  need of work;

19   5.Strongly supports the work of manufacturers who, when realizing the inhumanity of child
20  labor, ceased the practice in India, where a large percentage of products were being
21  manufactured by children; 

22   6.Expresses its hope that companies guilty of such a horrendous offense as child labor will
23  realize the inhumanity of their actions;

24   7.Emphasizes the importance of an end to child labor worldwide.  


  




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