Child Labour
Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation worldwide, although these laws do not consider all work by children as child labour; exceptions include work by child artists, family duties, supervised training, and some forms of work undertaken by Amish children, as well as by indigenous children in the Americas. Nearly 1 in 10 children are subjected to child labour worldwide, with some forced into hazardous work through trafficking. A ten-year-old boy subjected to child labour in Bangladesh shows his hands, dirty from work, in 2018. UNICEF/UN0263808/Lister Economic hardship exacts a toll on millions of families worldwide – and in some places, it comes at the price of a child’s safety. Roughly 160 million children were subjected to child labour at the...