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Child Labour
Facts:
One out of six children in the world today is involved in child labour:
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Unicef | 218 million children are child labourers (down 11% on the 2002 ILO report)
- 73 million working children are less than 10 years old
- Every year 22 000 children die in work-related accidents
- 5.7 million children are forced into debt-bondage or other forms of slavery
- The largest number of working children are in the Asia-Pacific region
- Sub-Saharan Africa has the largest proportion of working children - nearly one-third of children aged 14 and under
- Most children work in the informal sector (ie. in homes or on the streets) without any legal protection
- 70% work in agriculture, commercial hunting and fishing or forestry
- 8% work in manufacturing
- 8% in wholesale and retail trade, restaurants and hotels
- 7% in community, social and personal service, such as domestic work.
(Source: UNICEF)
Facts on Child Labour, ILO
Countries with the highest incidence of labour by children aged 10-14
(Source: New Internationalist)
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