Sub -Saharan Africa remains the most children employed in agriculture, and especially the affected region, where about 87 million juvenile employees live.
Although the data is still alarming, UNICEF has noticed a decrease in the number of working children in recent years. In the years 2016–2020 their number reached 160 million – today there are 22 million less.
“These numbers show that despite progress, too many children still have no chance to learn, have fun or simply being children,” said Christian Schneider, national director of UNICEF in Germany, quoted by PAP.
Children's work. How to prevent it?
Schneider also emphasized that Effective protection against children's work are: stronger legal systems, better social care, investments in free and high -quality education and ensuring decent working conditions for adults with adequate remuneration.
The CEO of the International Labor Organization (ILO), Gilbert F. Houngbo, noted that despite progress, the world has a long way ahead of him to completely eliminate the work of children. In turn, Catherine Russell, head of UNICEF, added that despite 100 million children less at work than 25 years ago, too many of them are still employed in dangerous conditions, in mines, at plantations or in factories.
UN experts remind you that the term “children's work” does not apply to minor help at home, but to activities that interfere with education, harm the development, health or morality of the child.
According to Un News, children's work is often intergenerational. Lack of access to education consolidates poverty and exclusion – both in the lives of children and future generations.
