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Article: New ILO Report Shows Marked Decline in Child Labor Worldwide; Believes its Worst Forms Can Be Eliminated in 10 Years
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- U.S. Newswire
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- May 4, 2006
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GENEVA, Switzerland, May 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Child labor,
especially in its worst forms, is in decline for the first time
across the globe, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said
today, in a new, cautiously optimistic report entitled "The end of
child labor: Within reach".
The ILO report also says that if the current pace of the decline
were to be maintained and the global momentum to stop child labor
continued, it believes child labor could feasibly be eliminated, in
most of its worst forms, in 10 years.
"The end of child labor is within our reach," says Juan Somavia,
Director-General of the ILO. "Though the fight against child labor