The International Labor Organization (ILO) says 250 million children from the ages of five and fourteen, work in developing countries. 7% in Latin America, 32% in Africa and 61% in Asia.
Numerous children are slave labourers. They are forbidden to have an education and a normal childhood. Some are detained and beaten and many are deprived of the right to leave the workplace. Numerous children are kidnapped.
Nike displays a good public image by contributing to charity and providing equipment and likes to tell the public that it has set up stitching centers in places like as Sialkot, Pakistan. Nike however, has been blamed of applying child labour in the manufacture of its soccer balls in Pakistan.
Many children work in sweatshops in nations around the world, where they are subjected to severe and brutal working conditions, as they are exploited, abused and arbitrarily disciplined.