Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Racism Protracts
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tender Hands at Work
Did you know that it is a crime to exploit children in India? Talk about a corrupt government in India, the country couldn’t manage to enforce the consequences of those who violate the law, and/or does the crime themselves. Raghuvansh Prasad Singh is the rural development minister in the United Progressive Alliance government; he was investigated when a television channel tuned in videos of two children working in his farmland pulling ploughs. This minister made the children do the labor because oxen and tractors cannot handle the waterlogged fields. So can you imagine ploughs being pulled by children? That is a crime. Ploughs are intended for wild ox to pull them. One of the two children said, “My hands and feet ache all the time, but I cannot leave this work. I need to work for food. “ (Vinod, 2007). It is harder as the children in rural areas are often unnoticed, but it is not uncommon to find very young children clean in restaurants miles away from hi-tech. The government has been banning child labor, thus it is a hard truth that there are still child slaves. They continue to serve even as technology grows upon them. Temples in south India no longer appear as a place to worship, but a place for children to beg. Children, who work at small teashops, a fast-food outlet, or site of construction, are often underpaid. They suffer being overworked and abused to earn money for family. Children are considered an important source of family income. What kind of minister is he who enslaves children and justifies the laws? As Vinod addressed that most public officials and politicians in India have a history of breaking rules and regulations apart from being morally corrupt. The laws were formed last year to ban on child labor, it was strengthened and included restaurants, but no practice of these laws were witnessed. Vinod’s research attested many of these outlets still employ children in large numbers. It is fortunate that there was a recent demand to have him resign, but when he was found guilty he most definitely should pay the price!
http://www.stolenchildhood.net/entry/india-union-minister-raghuvansh-prasad-singhs-child-slaves/
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Rights, respect and responsibility
I spent the night tonight seeking for an article that would blow my mind so I could also let it blow others by sharing. I was not carrying much of luck until I stumbled upon this article. In particular, this has enlivened me by the fact the school acts veritably on its own title, it goes Rights Respecting School Award. This award programme is empowering the rights to children. The purposes of this program are enriching and have continuously changed children lives. Teaching children that with rights comes with responsibility and reminding them about the rights of other children is the solution to many broken rights for children. All the children who are under RRSA come from diverse backgrounds, so the fact that they are learning with other cultures and about other cultures, will make them more inter-culturally competent. It is impressive that the children who attend RRSA speak over forty languages between them, and speak English fluently as secondary language. Reading this article has brought me to the sense of comprehending the best way to make the rights respected are to have them be endorsed. I am more than confident after this article that it is not authority that is guaranteed to protect the children, there are many countries that is corrupted so authority is not to be trusted. Now, it is children that could protect themselves the best with the knowledge of their own rights. I am appalled there is such school like this, and it is pretty unfortunate that I live far away from UK. I must give this program a big kudos to change the new cycle. Now I, personally, am curious how children in UK would affect Europe, then the world.

