Breathe
By Soledad Durazo
The ephemeris, the international day of child labor that was commemorated yesterday, June 12, serves as an opportunity to stop and learn more about the subject.
We will begin by emphasizing that not all economic activities performed by children are considered child labor. Some of them are light and appropriate for their age, under safe conditions, supervision and guidance of responsible adults, are acceptable and can contribute to the development of children.
I believe that adulthood allows us to measure the importance for our formation, the fact of having had responsibilities appropriate to our age when we were children.
Having been fortunate enough that those responsibilities did not take us out of our childhood and did not make us drop out of school, nor did they prevent us from playing and did not force us economically, physically or sexually to work, we cannot ignore the fact that today child labor is an alarming reality in Mexico and in many other countries around the world. It affects millions of children, depriving them of their childhood, their education and their fundamental rights. It is a complex problem that requires urgent and coordinated actions by society, government, organizations and individuals to put an end to it.
