Children are killed, arrested, made to work

According to the reports released for the Children’s Rights Day, 787 children who worked since 2002 lost their lives. Children are both far from education and freedom.

Children are killed, arrested, made to work

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The reports released yesterday for the ‘Children’s Rights Day’ celebrated on November 20, when the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted, revealed the bitter truth. Children’s Rights Day was proclaimed to protect children and improve their conditions, but the situation today is quite different from what it should be. While children in the country are deprived of their most basic rights such as life, shelter, health and education, they lose their lives in work-related crimes and struggle with hunger and poverty.

According to the report released by the Occupational Health and Safety (ISIG) Assembly yesterday, at least 787 children who were employed during the AKP rule lost their lives. In the report, which states that the children employed in the country constitute the most precarious, vulnerable, exploited and exposed to violence in the working class, it was stated that “the agriculture, industry, education and social policies implemented by the AKP have made more and more children work every day”.

Most in service

In the report, in which the problem of working children is increasing, 30.8 percent of child workers work in agriculture, 23.7% in industry and 45.5 percent in the service sector. Child labor is concentrated in the areas of working on the street, which is considered to be among the worst forms of child labour, working in heavy and dangerous jobs in small and medium-sized enterprises, working in mobile and temporary agricultural works for wages, apart from family work. In the report, which is stated that only 65.7 percent of the children who are employed continue their education, it is reminded that the Ministry of National Education determined the number of children who were working when they should have been at school, but declared the number of children “who could not reach” as approximately 440 thousand.

According to the report of the Roma Dialogue Network (RODA) on the Access of Roma Children to Education during the Pandemic Period, the rate of Roma children’s access to education has decreased to 2 percent. In the report, which was prepared as a result of interviews with 117 households, it was evaluated that Roma children were pushed into labor.

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away from education

Elmas Arus, Coordinator of RODA, said, “Children who could reach school in the neighborhoods we went to before had dreams, at least. When we talked to the same children in the same neighborhoods, the children stopped dreaming.”

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