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Feb 25, 2023 · Arriving in record numbers, they’re ending up in dangerous jobs that violate child labor laws — including in factories that make products for well-known brands like Cheetos and Fruit of the...
Sep 18, 2023 · For Marcos Cux — and thousands of other migrant children — working dangerous jobs that violate child-labor laws is the only American dream there is.
Jun 9, 2023 · 79 million child labour victims work in dirty, dangerous and degrading jobs. Almost half of all child labourers are between ages 5 and 11. Approximately 4.3 million children work in forced labour, including debt bondage, slavery and commercial sexual exploitation.
Nearly half of all children engaged in child labour – 79 million – are in hazardous work that directly endangers their health and safety. Child labour is most prevalent in low-income countries, yet more than half of all child labour occurs in middle-income countries.
Jun 9, 2021 · NEW YORK/GENEVA, 10 June 2021 – The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years – with millions more at risk due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF.
Mar 5, 2023 · Hundreds of migrant children in the U.S. are working long hours and in dangerous jobs. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Brandeis University professor David Weil about why this is happening ...
Jun 9, 2021 · This report warns that global progress to end child labour has stalled for the first time in 20 years. The number of children aged 5 to 17 years in hazardous work – defined as work that is likely to harm their health, safety or morals – has risen by 6.5 million to 79 million since 2016.
