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Today, more than 200 million children working worldwide, performing activities harmful to their mental, physical and emotional. Children are forced to work because their survival and that of their families depend. Child labor persists, even where it was declared illegal, and it is often surrounded by a wall of silence and indifference. While the eradication of child labor is a long-term goal in many countries, certain forms of child labor must be tackled urgently. Nearly three-quarters of working children are engaged in the worst forms of child labor, including trafficking, armed conflict, slavery and dangerous work. The effective abolition of child labor is one of the most urgent challenges of our time.

The magnitude of the problem

The ILO (International Labour Organization) presents figures which deviate significantly from the most reliable estimates that were available in 2001, which set some 250 million children aged 5 to 14 laborers in the country developing. Based on the latest data, it is estimated that 352 million children aged 5 to 14 are currently engaged in economic activity of one kind or another.
The ILO estimates that the main obstacle to the effective abolition of child labor is its dominance in an area outside the control of most formal institutions, regardless of economic means of the country.
We distinguish:
Children producers (mining, glass, carpet)
Children in debt bondage (that is the case in Asia)
Child slaves.
For 5 years in Africa
Working children in their family or community (one third of the agricultural workforce in some developing countries)
Girls who participate in housework are not considered work.
UNICEF and other organizations make a distinction between acceptable work, which provides training and status to the child and work intolerable, which hampers their intellectual development, physical and psychological.

So what? :

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