CHILDLABOUR

                      CHILDLABOUR Child labour is work carried out children that harms them or exploits them in some way - physically, mentally, morally, or by blocking their access to education. While progress has been made around the world in the fight against child labour, there's still a long way to go. How Many Child Labourers Are There in the World? On the African continent, almost 20 percent of children aged 5-17 work, compared to around 8 percent in Asia Pacific and 5 percent in the Americas. Moreover, approximately 4.3 million of these children suffer in so-called 'unconditional' worst forms of child labour, which include forced and bonded labour, slavery, the use of children in armed conflict, the trafficking of children and commercial sexual exploitation. Although there is a steady decline in child labour, and things are moving in the right direction, the challenge is still huge and progress remains too slow, with  1...