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Article: 12 June: World Day Against Child Labour.
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- PR Newswire Europe
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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BRUSSELS, June 11 /PRNewswire/ --
- Child Labour in Agriculture Targeted
Every day more than 200 million children around the world spend time working at difficult and often dangerous tasks so that they and their family members can survive.
The most extreme forms of child labour involve children being enslaved, taken from their families, exposed to serious hazards and illnesses, sexually exploited or left to fend for themselves on the streets of the world's largest cities.
On 12 June, the World Day Against Child Labour, Education International is calling attention to this massive violation of the rights of hundreds of millions children around the globe. EI is ...