Sunday, July 03, 2022

Found out there's a UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

"Many Americans might have never heard of the Convention and also might not know that their food may have been picked by one of the approximately 500,000 child farmworkers in today's US."

~ Cao Siqi, Liu Caiyu and Xu Yelu

"Farms are the most dangerous places to work in the US for children. A report by the federal Government Accountability Office released in November 2018 presented alarming findings. Researchers found that between 2003 and 2016, 237 children died while working on farms in the US. This happens despite the fact that farms employ less than 6 percent of child workers, highlighting the devastating consequences of weak laws and regulations that don't properly protect child farmworkers.

The AFOP also pointed out agriculture is the US' most dangerous occupation for farmworker youth, while pesticides increase the risk of developmental disorders in farmworker children."

~ Cao Siqi, Liu Caiyu and Xu Yelu

"Cheaper than machines, working 70 hours under exploitive laws – life of 500,000 US child farmworkers" - People's Daily Online

http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0703/c90000-10118319.html

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