At least not in that article -- people want to change it and they're wildly poor and powerless to do so.
Yeah, but there are all those other articles where people sell their kids off to the brothels in Bangkok, or slave labor for fishermen elsewhere in Africa, or the production of chocolate, or rugs.
There's a lot of child slavery in the world.
People need to not be powerless
The power wielded against people is not just the exploitive gov't, but often their own cultural practices.
The Society estimates that there are 8,000 girl-slaves — slaves in the fullest sense of the term — in West Africa today. These girls are hierodulic slaves, combining the roles of agricultural slave, domestic slave, temple slave and sex slave.
Originally offered as human sacrifice to ensure success in war, these girls are the helpless victims of a traditional form of slavery which has survived intact since the pre-colonial era. These slaves live in villages just a half-day’s journey inland from the very coast from which slaves were once shipped to the Americas.
Taken from their mothers from the age of four, these girls work from dawn to dusk in the fields. From the age of five they are beaten with canes or with specially-made wire whips. They are raped from as young as eight years old. Their masters, the voodoo priests, claim the traditional right of masters since the dawn of history to free sexual access to the slaves, and the girls are beaten into submission if they refuse.
Many instances of common cultural practices which are abominations:
Traditional servile concubinage takes different forms, but usually involves either the selling of a girl-child or a young woman by her parents or clan into concubinage, or the transfer of a woman as property to another man on the death of her husband.
In the Kingdom of Nepal, this occurred in a traditional form, such as the badinis and helambus, where the girl-children had to be offered by the serfs as servile concubines to their feudal or royal overlords. Following the overthrow of the Ranas, these traditional forms of servile child concubinage have degenerated into a commercial industry in the cities.
The tradition of servile marriage still exists in Ethiopia, where it is common for a man to assault and defile an underage girl against her will. Once the girl is assaulted and defiled, the man goes to her father and demands the girl as his wife. The father and the girl have no option but to agree: if they refuse, no other man will marry the girl.
This tradition of servile marriage was recently highlighted by a girl who had been kidnapped by a man and his gang, who intended to defile her. She escaped and murdered her pursuer. The case highlighted the plight of girls who, after experiencing the trauma of the assault, must spend the remainder of their lives as the servile wives of their assaulter.
I'm just putting my vote behind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.