Features

2011

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   World Day against Child Labour, 12 June 2011

   From child labourer to child advocate: How Rodel succeeded in leaving the mineshaft

   26 May 2011

   More than half (53 per cent) of the 215 million child labourers worldwide do hazardous work. While their number is increasing among older children, aged 15-17, progress is being made for younger children, aged 5-14, says the latest ILO report on child labour “Children in Hazardous Work”. Some of them succeed in leaving the dark tunnel of a mineshaft or other dangerous workplaces, as the example of Rodel from the Philippines shows.