1.4 Million Children
Aged 5 to 13 Work in
Brazil
There were over 1.4
million illegal child
laborers aged five to 13
in Brazil in 2006, the
Brazilian Geography and
Statistics Institute (IBGE)
said in a study Friday.
The study, based on the
National Household
Sample Survey, showed
that 237,000 child
laborers were aged from
5 to 9 (1.4 percent of
the total child
population in Brazil)
and 1.2 million aged
from 10 to 13 (8.2
percent of the total).
Under Brazil's
legislation and
international laws,
children aged from 14 to
15 can work only under
"apprentice" status, and
children aged from 16 to
17 can work in common
jobs as long as they do
not work night shifts or
take part in any
potentially dangerous or
unhealthy activity, IBGE
economist Cimar Pereira
said.
According to the report,
there were 1.3 million
child laborers aged from
14 to 15 and 2.4 million
aged 16 to 17.
Furthermore, some
273,000 children
laborers aged from 5 to
17 fell victim to
accidents in 2006, the
study said.
The office of the
International Labor
Organization (ILO) in
Brazil said Friday that
Brazil must intensify
measures to protect
child laborers from
exploitation. |
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