Editing Child labour (section)

=== Switzerland ===
{{Main|Child labour in Switzerland}}

As in many other countries, [[child labour in Switzerland]] affected among the so-called ''[[Kaminfegerkinder]]'' ("chimney sweep children") and children working p.e. in spinning mills, factories and in agriculture in 19th-century Switzerland,<ref name="hds-kinderarbeit">{{cite web|url=http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D13909.php|title=Kinderabeit|publisher=HDS|last=Gull|first=Thomas|language=de|date=2008-10-13|access-date=2014-11-15}}</ref> but also to the 1960s so-called ''[[Verdingkinder]]'' (literally: "contract children" or "indentured child laborers") were children who were taken from their parents, often due to poverty or ''moral reasons'' – usually mothers being unmarried, very poor citizens, of [[Names of the Romani people|Gypsy]]–[[Yeniche people|Yeniche]] origin, so-called ''[[Kinder der Landstrasse]]'',<ref name="roger_sablonier_unizh-publikationen">{{cite web|url=http://www.hist.uzh.ch/fachbereiche/mittelalter/emeriti/sablonier/publikationen.html|title=Prof. Dr. Roger Sablonier, Publikationen|publisher=[[University of Zürich]], Historisches Seminar|language=de|access-date=2014-11-15}}</ref> etc. – and sent to live with new families, often poor farmers who needed cheap labour.<ref name="wiedergutmachungsinitiative">{{cite web|url=http://www.wiedergutmachung.ch/|title=Wiedergutmachungsinitiative|publisher=wiedergutmachung.ch|language=de|date=2014|access-date=2014-11-15|archive-date=11 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211171754/https://www.wiedergutmachung.ch/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

There were even ''Verdingkinder'' auctions where children were handed over to the farmer asking the least money from the authorities, thus securing cheap labour for his farm and relieving the authority from the financial burden of looking after the children. In the 1930s 20% of all agricultural labourers in the [[Canton of Bern]] were children below the age of 15. Swiss municipality guardianship authorities acted so, commonly tolerated by federal authorities, to the 1960s, not all of them of course, but usually communities affected of low taxes in some Swiss cantons<ref name="BBC" /> Swiss historian Marco Leuenberger investigated, that in 1930 there were some 35,000 indentured children, and between 1920 and 1970 more than 100,000 are believed to have been placed with families or homes. 10,000 ''Verdingkinder'' are still alive.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29765623|title=Switzerland's shame: The children used as cheap farm labour|work=BBC News|last=Puri|first=Kavita|date=2014-10-29|access-date=2014-11-15}}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/opinion/slaverys-shadow-on-switzerland.html?_r=0|title=Slavery's Shadow on Switzerland|newspaper=The New York Times|last=Wild|first=Tony|date=2014-11-10|access-date=2014-11-15}}</ref> Therefore, the so-called ''[[Wiedergutmachungsinitiative]]'' was started in April 2014. In April 2014 the collection of targeted at least authenticated 100,000 signatures of Swiss citizens has started, and still have to be collected to October 2015.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}