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Please support the United States of Jolly People's proposal for Child Labor to outlaw child labor. Please go to proposals and approve it. :)

Don't we already have a child labor resolution? Please read the passed ones before you propose a new one.

When you are asking people to approve a proposal, it generally helps if you post a copy of it.

Here it is:
We, the United States of Jolly People, say that child labor should be outlawed. The following things are some of the laws that will take effect and are the reasons why we need these laws:

1) Child labor is a horrible thing, not only because it's not ethical, but too many people take advantage of this.

2) Instead of forcing them to work and not recieve an education, we should try to put more into education for them so we could have better jobs and quality of people.

3) Many children do not get paid equally to adults and usually are paid much less to know money.

4) The minimal age limit to work should be 16, and they have to have a permit and the parent's, parents', guardian's, guardians' permission to work. They would also have full control over there money and the parent, parents, guardrian, or guardians can't touch what they earn, but 50% goes to there social securty and back accounts. It is tax free as long as you're under 18.

This will be something that will greatly iprove human rights and will also help the economy.

And it also helps if you run a proposal through a spell checker first - Microsoft Word, Corel Wordperfect - it commands more respect, and you will get more approvals. Sending the draft to some one else for a grammar check is also recommended. Good try, but it needs some work.

Don't we already have a child labor resolution? Please read the passed ones before you propose a new one.
Ha! So we do! I hadn't even noticed that.

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #14

CHILD LABOR
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.


Category: Human Rights Strength: Strong Proposed by: Santa Barbara (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=display_nation/nation=santa_barbara)

Description: GIVEN that many nation states see fit to employ children under age 12 in manual labor and industry,

GIVEN that these industries and labor are often highly detrimental to a child's body and health,

BELIEVING that it is a fundamental right to be given the chance to grow up educated and free from unneccesary disease, injury, and possible death from industrial work,

ASSERTING that it is immoral and atrocious to force children , by manipulation, authority or raw strength, to work for corporation or state,

Be it hereby resolved that the UN shall guarantee the rights of children to NOT work in any mines, factories, chemical plants or ANY OTHER industrial occupation; moreover, it shall be prohibited for a child to take up labor in such an occupation.

Votes For: 16,512
Votes Against: 3,394

Implemented: Tue May 13 2003

[Repeal this Resolution (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=UN_repeal/repealid=13)]

it doesn't matter if we already have it... mine is just modifying it... and putting more rules applying to it

A proposal that modifies another resolution is illegal, and may be deleted. You would have to first repeal the original resolution (See link provided above), and then propose the new version of it. Make it clear in the repeal notice that that is what you are intending to do.

Children have no feeling for quality, abolish child labour!

Industrious work is never defined in the proposal. What exactly constitutes industrious work.

And no, it is not every child's right to grow up in such an environment. Where you grow up is determined by chance.

There are too many subjective assumptions in this. It needs clearer definition of terms used.

it doesn't matter if we already have it... mine is just modifying it... and putting more rules applying to it
Er, yeah it does matter. If you want to change it, you have to propose a repeal to that resolution, get your proposal passed, and [/i]then[/i] submit this. And get it passed, too.

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