In Canada, child abuse of any kind is one of the most punishable acts. However, the nation, unintentionally promotes child abuse in countries around the world. Around the world, almost 250 million children, from and ages of 4 to 14 work full-time in hazardous work conditions. These children are forced to work in locked shops, with armed guards preventing their escape. They are forced to perform tedious tasks, such as sewing buttons, cutting and trimming threads, folding, moving and packing garments. Children as young as 8 years old are forced to work as cleaners,

As a child one can remember the Disney classics and the Disney toys but can one believe that these precious memories where once another child’s torture? Disney products including the Happy Meals sold at McDonalds are made by child labour. Children are forced to work 9 to 10 hours a day, seven days a week, earning as little as six cents an hour in Vietnam making these promotional toys, many of which are Disney characters for McDonald's Happy Meals. Overtime is mandatory. Six cents an hour is well below subsistence levels. The most basic meal in Vietnam - rice, vegetables, and tofu - costs 70 cents. Three meals would cost $2.10. Wages do not even cover 20 per cent of the daily food and travel costs for a single worker, let alone a family. After working a 70 hour week, some of the children take home a salary of only $4.20. (Global Alliance)

traders and prostitutes without pay, and sometimes without food. These children suffer punishments as having hot oil poured down their backs, or being tied down so that they do not run away. Most work around 12 hours a day, with only small breaks for meals. The children are very often fed only minimum amounts of food. The majority of child workers who cannot return home at night sleep alongside of the factory walls, further increasing sickness and poor health.

The FIFA World Cup is the passion of millions of people around the world once every 4 years. However, thousands of children are losing their precious childhood, stitching soccer balls that are used at these events. Pakistan, India and China are the main exporters of soccer balls, and all reports point to the use of children in this sector. More than 7,000 children under the age of 14 work stitching soccer balls. The children receive about 60 cents per ball they stitch, and even older children can only stitch three or four balls a day. They are denied the opportunity of growing up dreaming of a future without stitching. Instead, they work day and night stitc

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