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A Cambodian child scavenging in a landfill site. Child labour refers to the full-time employment of children under a minimum legal age. [1] In 2003, an International Labour Organization (ILO) survey reported that one in every ten children in the capital above the age of seven was engaged in child domestic labour. [1]
Due to poverty, children in Cambodia are forced to give up education to work and supplement the family's income; see Child labour in Cambodia. The cost of sending their children to school is very high in some families, making it almost impossible for the children to receive education. [22] Close to 20% of Cambodian children ages 5–9 are employed.
The List of countries by child labour rate provides rankings of countries based on their rates of child labour. Child labour is defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as participation in economic activity by underage persons aged 5 to 17. Child work harms children, interferes with their education, and prevents their development.
Youth in Cambodia (under age thirty) make up 65.3% of Cambodia's 14,805,000 people. [1] Twenty-six percent of Cambodians are between the ages of 14 and 30 and another 30% are under 14. [ 2 ] All of the youth in the country are second and third generation offspring of survivors of the Khmer Rouge , a genocide that occurred from 1975-1979. [ 2 ]
Most recently, Missouri is considering a bill to loosen restrictions for kids ages 14 and 15, and the Alabama Policy Institute is pushing for undoing child labor laws as a solution to Alabama's ...
The ILO Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment C138, [1] is a convention adopted in 1973 by the International Labour Organization.It requires ratifying states to pursue a national policy designed to ensure the effective abolition of child labour and to raise progressively the minimum age for admission to employment or work.
Child labour refers to the full-time employment of children under a minimum legal age. [58] In 2003, an International Labour Organization (ILO) survey reported that one in every ten children in the capital above the age of seven was engaged in child domestic labour. [58] Children who are too young to work in the fields work as scavengers. [59]
In 1839 Prussia was the first country to pass laws restricting child labor in factories and setting the number of hours a child could work, [1] although a child labour law was passed was in 1836 in the state of Massachusetts. [2] Almost the entirety of Europe had child labour laws in place by 1890.