Child Labor In Africa - Photo Edited By Myself

I waited until August – until my church community would give away unsold examples of the June-sample of the magazine “kontinente” for free – to get this magazine.
>Anyway said June-sample says that the “Karl Kübel Stiftung” now was able to prove – and they made this experience in India – that if school was for free there even parents in countries where child-labor still is rather common and where they think that the economy needs children as young as four years as workers would rather send their kids to school. Thus they simply built a school in India for former child-laborers that doesn’t cost their parents a cent and it worked. More children were sent to school.
If you want to support one of their schools financially – it doesn’t have to be a regular payment, but can also be a single donation -, please ask s.maurer@kkstiftung for further information.
>”Tagesschau” says that per second 2315 cups of coffee are drunk just all over Germany – most of them not even fair-trade. Even though in polls they clearly say they’d wish for more environmentally-friendly production of coffee, for a better treatment of workers and for no child labor. Some even claimed they’d pay some more money for fair-trade coffee.

Last Wednesday there was some kind of discussion on “Domradio” concerning the subject of “Amnesty International” wanting prostitution to be legalized all around the world. The non-religious arguments against this plan were:
>It is an illusion to see prostitutes as self-determined, mature women who do this job simply because they feel like it. Judging by things certain therapists and prostitutes said, most of these women were victim of sexual abuse or rape before turning to prostitution. Thus they simply act according to their stress-syndromes.
>During the “act” many women simply don’t have the courage to speak it out when the “customer” requires them to do something they don’t want to do – which makes this some kind of paid semi-rape.
>The argument that in countries where prostitution is illegal forced prostitutes don’t ask the police for help out of fear is not too plausible. With a few countries as exception a woman has nothing to fear if she goes to the police and reports being forced into prostitution – as several examples that even reached international media prove. They will simply arrest those who forced her into prostitution and then let her go.
>If prostitution is legal the panderer will appear to be a honest man who does his legal business, which will make it harder for forced prostitutes to convince people they got forced into this.
>If “Amnesty International” wants to help prostitutes, it would have made more sense to fight against the fact that in some countries many women are so poor they are forced into prostitution or that in some countries where prostitution is illegal even forced prostitutes get sentenced if they are caught.
>This may give human-traffickers false encouragement and assurance as they now may think they will receive a less severe punishment for forcing women into prostitution as they simply force them into a legal and not dangerous job.
>If a legalization makes the number of prostitutes increase things may become more unclear, making it harder for police officers to find forced prostitutes among all these semi-volunteer prostitutes.

“Domradio” said on Thursday that while buying coffee, clothes, meat or mobile phones most Germans meanwhile make sure that what they buy is a fair trade product. What these Germans don’t know – nor think about – is that 50% of all gravestones we have in Germany come either from China or from India. Both are known to use child labor, to pay their workers wages that are so low that workers can’t really live from that and to make even very young workers do unhealthy and dangerous work.
P.S. Of course I know that India and China are not part of Africa, but Asia, but that’s not the point here.
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Re-upload: On the website “http://www.swisscontact.ch/english/pages/PR/PR.php?navanchor=2110003” you get informed about different projects to help the developing world and you’ll even be given the chance of getting involved.
A lot of families over there are so poor that they have to send their children to work instead of sending them to school, which would be to expensive anyway. If you want to learn about two organizations that help them, then you should visit the following websites: “http://www.help-alliance.com/en/about-us/” and “http://www.staesa.org/countries_eng.html”. There you’ll even be given the chance of getting involved.

When thinking about child-laborers used in the production of chocolate most people think about some children from another continent – South America – whose skin doesn’t even have the same colour as ours – I’m not being racist here. I’m just depicting how indifferent some are towards the subject of child-laborers who work for our chocolate. – who work on cocoa plantations. What these people don’t know – and until I read the newspaper “Zeit” today I didn’t know that either – is that not only the owners of cocoa-plantations use child-laborers, but also those who own hazelnut-plantations do so. Even a member state of the EU, namely Turkey, has children doing very hard and long work on these plantations. “Zeit” even found children who claim to have been working there for weeks and up to 12 hours a day. During that time they are told not to go to school, but to get up early to start work early on these plantations. Even when it actually would be too hot /cold /windy for a person of that age to do hard work they are told to help with the harvest of hazelnuts.
By the way the situation isn’t any different in China, another great exporter of hazelnuts.
“Zeit” named Rocher, Duplo, Hanuta and [almost] any bar of chocolate that is with nuts as things you should avoid if you don’t want to support child-labor.

Most Germans were pleased to hear from “Tagesschau” that from the beginning of this month on owning child-pornography has been illegal in Japan – even though the fact that in Japan the highest sentence a judge is allowed to speak out is only one year in prison or a fine 7.200€ which is much smoother than in Germany -, but at the same time there were also critics. For example owners of child-pornography now are given the order to get rid of this material until June 2015. That means that we have to wait a whole year until the consume of child-pornography in Japan comes to its final end even though all they have to do is throwing said material into the trashcan. If they were told to get rid of guns and munition within one year, this time span would make sense as you can’t just throw firearms and bullets into a trashcan as there is a chance that these things might be found by people who are not supposed to find them – like playing children or criminal gangs. However fact is with child-pornography that no danger could come from throwing it into a trashcan or burning it. Another point of criticism is that child-pornographic drawings – like some mangas or comic books – or scriptures still are legal and thus respective people still get the chance to nourish their pedophile imagination which in extreme cases probably could lead to them committing crimes related to these fantasies – like committing sexual assault or illegal consumption of child-pornography. Considering that the actual purpose of this law was just to have some resistance against sex-slavery of children in Japan – which also kind of explains why I post this under this photo that deals with a form of slavery – it may make sense to still allow drawings like that, but still these critics could be justified.