United to end child labour in agriculture
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date: 12/06/2019 - 12/06/2019
venue: Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi 155, 1040 Brussels
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- Nearly half of the 152 million child labourers are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. 71% of all child workers are found in agriculture.
- Key factors contributing to child labour in rural areas are low family income, household poverty and lack of organisation of farm workers and small producers.
- The UN Sustainable Development Goal 8, Target 7, calls for ‘immediate and effective measures to … secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour … and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms’.
