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Article: Bid to break the scourge of child labour practices; Governments urged to address problem of 'working children' to ensure young people grow up in protected environments.(News)
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- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2006
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BYLINE: Phomello Molwedi
There are more "working children" between the age of five and 14 in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world.
Faced with this information, the first Southern African conference on child labour, organised under the theme "Education, not Exploitation" in Boksburg last week, has urged governments to combat the worst forms of child labour to ensure that children grow up in protected environments.
Delegates from each of the five SADC countries at the conference vowed to get national child labour action plans in place in their respective countries.
They also agreed to the regular, rigorous and publicly ...