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Child labor
- involving youngsters between the ages of 7 and 16 years, rather than abating, continues to assume wider and more frightening dimensions.
- Highly vulnerable children, mostly elementary school–age students, continue to be lured away from their unsuspecting parents and guardians and deployed in slave labor
The International Labor Organization (ILO), in a report released in 1999, note that:
- Majority of workers aged 10–14 years are found in Asia, which has 44.6 million or 13% of the total number of child workers in the world,but the highest percentages are found in Africa, where 23.6 million children or 26.3% of the total are working. Latin America is in third place, with 5.1 million (9.8%).
- Because of urban expansion, child labor is increasing inexorably in the Third World.
- However, despite urbanization, 9 of every 10 working children are still employed in rural areas
Child labor in Nigeria
- ranges between 20% and 30% of the population under 18 years of age, which makes up a part of the 41% of African children between 5 and 16 years old who are laborers.
- With largest concentration in the major cities of Lagos, Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Kano, Abuja, Zaire, Calabar, Benin City, Solcoto, Maidugri, Kdduna, Jos, and Akure.
- Official statistics show that 4.1 million boys aged 10–14 years are at work in Nigeria, compared to 3.5 million girls (girl doing housework does not take into account)
- Child labor mostly occurs include construction sites in the semiformal sector, where children are employed to carry bricks.
- In public places, they are street vendors, shoe shiners, car washers, and feet washers.
- They also work in semipublic settings in cottage industries, such as vulcanizing, iron and metal works, hair dressing, and tailoring.
- Child labor also occurs in private homes, where thousands of children, especially girls aged 10 years and older, work as domestic servants and are often emotionally and sexually abused by adults.
- Almost all parts of Nigeria are involved in the trading of children for prostitution, and over 70% of domestic servants are constantly not paid their wages, live like condemned persons—exploited, out of school, abused, and deprived of the necessities of life
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