China:
As details of the school explosion in Jiangxi province have filtered out, even the most hardened China watcher could not fail to have been shocked.
How could teachers force eight-year-old school children to assemble volatile explosives, when they should have been reading books?
It is a question that has no easy answer.
But it has served to highlight, once again, the desperate predicament of many in China's rural backwaters.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1207349.stm
Many workers, including child workers, in China are forced to work in very dangerous conditions. Most child workers are working in the town ship and village factories. According to a government report in 1984, 82.7% of township and village enterprises in China have at lease one problem which cawes occupational disease. 1/3 of workers are working in dangerous conditions, in which poisonous chemicals, dust and noise prevail. Children absolutely suffer more than adults in such horrible working conditions.
Moreover, it was reported that half of the enterprises in Shenzhen are found to have violated the Chinese labour regulations. It was reported in January, 1996 that more than 70,000 (230,000 reported by Ming Pao and Agency France Presse) women working in mostly Taiwan owned shoe factories in south-eastern Fujian could have been exposed to benzene poisoning 5 times the legal maximum (Ming Pao claims 10 times). At least 3 deaths are reported. Numerous women workers suffer from severe diseases caused by poisoning, and many are in critical condition. Most of these enterprises are suppliers to multinational corporations.
The multinational corporations' executives, however, deny that such problems are happening with their business partners. For example, Reebok claims that they have set up the "Reebok Human Rights Production Standard" to monitor their business partners and will send delegation to investigate their suppliers' factories regularly. So there should be no safety problem and exploitations with their business partners.
http://www.citinv.it/associazioni/CNMS/archivio/lavoro/childlab.html
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