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Article: AT WORK INSTEAD OF IN SCHOOL: Child labour drops, but many youngsters still exploited
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- CCPA Monitor
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Images of children lugging heavy carts and blackened by coal dust in mines could disappear within a decade after a sharp fall in child labour over the past four years, the International Labour Organization said in a recent report.
The ILO said that labour is still a hard reality for one in seven children around the world aged five to 17 and called for action to put the world's youngest workers into classrooms.
Better education and health care in Brazil and Mexico have enabled Latin America and the Caribbean to match the child labour records of some rich developed countries, leaving Africa as the biggest problem area, the ILO said. On current trends, the most oppressive forms of child labour ...