Delegate: xxx
School: High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University
Country: Saudi Arabia
Committee: United Nations Children’s Fund
Topic: Child Labor
Child labor is one of the most serious human rights issues of our time，although it shows that child labor rates have been decreasing since 2006 at a much slower rate than previously , we still cannot overlook the pretty basic that large child worker populations has never been eliminated completely up to now, and according toILO, in 2010, 215 million children remain involved in child labor despite great efforts to combat this issue.Saudi Arabia has been dealing with this problem seriously,for it doesn’t only endanger the lives of children, but it also impedes national and global economic progress.
Various actions have been taken by UNICEF and the ILO. The ILO’s most central goals of “Decent Work for All”is closely tied to the child labor issue.It’s current challenges include universal conversations on child labor—ILO Convention NO.138 and 182 , whichSaudi Arabia has also ratified. The UN also announced a plan several days ago, that they will try to eliminated the child labor populations before 2020. More laws andconventionswhich are directly related to children have beenpassed in many developing and developed countries , as UN and UNICEF kept working with governments of these nations.The Saudi Arabia government has made great efforts in this regard too.
As all of us know, the main causes of child labor are poverty, the lack of education and industrialization and modernization of nowadays countries. Social patterns and cultural traditions such as gender discrimination lead to some of the child labor problems as well. So the first thing we should do is to change people’s especially the parents’ mind that no one should be a slave at birth, even the poorest ones. The naturalness of slavery is said to follow from the belief that inequality, inequality is the basic rule between human beings—“All men are created equal ”. Secondly, we government need to carry a torch for more relief programs and try our best to solve the poors’ living problem so that many children in employment will stop working to support their families. Thirdly, more job opportunities for those who are affected by the crisis will be provided.We havebeen committed to improving education in Saudi Arabia for many years, and obviously, many more children are in school now instead of in factories.As for economics, though the global crisis means that developed
nations will have fewer resources to contribute to fighting this international problem-child labor, we never gave up raising the level of the open economy and using the money to improve our people’s life. The last but not the least, we will do more in strengthening legal system building，new laws which are used to protect children should be made soon, a stronger regulatory framework is needed as well. If necessary, we are willing to provide any economic aid as we can.
In the end, we just want to emphasize thatSaudi Arabia will never choose or are forced to ignore child labor, and will never take children’s hopeful life as the cost of industrialization and modernization. Our country’s economies and the well-being of our people will never dependent on child labor.
Protecting the children’s rights is every nation’s responsibility.
All nations should struggle to maintain the political support to guard their budgets for child labor. The 193 nations that have ratified the CRC should act in the best interests of children to make the world a better place for them.。