Products That Use Child Labour
Below, these are just few - yes! - just a FEW, of products that have been found using child labour. Are any of them products you use?
Agriculture
An estimated 60% of child labour occurs in agriculture, fishing, hunting and growing trees. Children have been found harvesting:
Manufacturing
About 14 million children are estimated to be directly involved in manufacturing goods, including:
Mining
Child labourers suffer extremely high illnesses and injury rates in underground mines, open mines and quarries. Children as young as six or seven years old break up rocks, and wash, sieve and carry ore, which is a mineral. Nine year olds work underground setting explosives and carry loads. Children work in a range of mining operations, including:
Agriculture
An estimated 60% of child labour occurs in agriculture, fishing, hunting and growing trees. Children have been found harvesting:
- bananas in Ecuador
- cotton in Argentina, Azerbaijan, Benin, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Zambia.
- flowers in Columbia
- oranges in Brazil
- cocoa in the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria
- tea in Argentina and Bangladesh
- fruit and vegetables in the United States
- rice in Brazil, Burma, Dominican Republic, India, Kenya, Mali, Philippines and Uganda
- coffee in Columbia, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, El Salvador, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
- tobacco in Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Lebanon, Malawi, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Philippines, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia
- sugarcane in Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Thailand and Uganda.
Manufacturing
About 14 million children are estimated to be directly involved in manufacturing goods, including:
- carpets from Afganistan, India, Iran, Nepal, Egypt and Pakistan
- clothing sewn in Bangladesh
- footwear made in India and the Philippines
- soccer balls made in India and the Philippines
- bricks made in Afganistan, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, India, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Peru, Uganda and Columbia
- fireworks made in China, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, India and Peru
Mining
Child labourers suffer extremely high illnesses and injury rates in underground mines, open mines and quarries. Children as young as six or seven years old break up rocks, and wash, sieve and carry ore, which is a mineral. Nine year olds work underground setting explosives and carry loads. Children work in a range of mining operations, including:
- gold in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Columbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Ghana, Guinea, Indonesia, Mali, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, Peru, Philippines, Senegal and Tanzania
- charcoal in Brazil and El Salvador
- diamonds in Angola, Central African Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe
- emeralds in Columbia
- coal in China, Columbia, Mongolia, North Korea, Pakistan and Ukraine