This site is not updated. Few issues affect the future of our nations as directly as those involving children. Yet children are among the least empowered people on our planet, and many of the attempts to strengthen and enforce their rights have failed. Our purpose today in addressing the rights of the child is to outline what we believe are some of the most important challenges in the international effort to protect the world's children.
Child labor is one of the most prominent children's rights issues.
In addressing this subject, it is important that the Commission maintain the distinction between all forms of child labor and the exploitation of child labor. Every job children perform is not necessarily harmful to them or their families. To eliminate this kind of work would be counterproductive. On the other hand, jobs which prevent children from attending school or which subject them to hazardous conditions are exploitative. Such labor is detrimental both to children and their countries.