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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]
The education system includes the development of sport, information technology education, research development and technical education. [3] School enrollment has increased during the 2000s in Cambodia. USAID data shows that in 2011 primary enrollment reached 96% of the child population, lower secondary school 34% and upper secondary 21%. [4]
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 ]
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.
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.
In 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor released data saying it investigated 955 cases involving child labor violations, a 14% jump from 2022. Within those cases, the department says it found nearly ...
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.
These scholars suggest, from their studies of economic and social data, that early 20th-century child labour in Europe and the United States ended in large part as a result of the economic development of the formal regulated economy, technology development and general prosperity. Child labour laws and ILO conventions came later.