Policy in child labour.

摘要

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines child labour as "all economic activities carried out by persons less than 15, regardless of their occupational status, except household work in parents/carers homes". By this definition over 200 million children, or a massive 20% of all children under the age of 15, are engaged in child labour. They are mostly concentrated in the poorest regions of the world: in Sub-Saharan Africa 29% of all children work, in Asia-Pacific 19%, and in Latin America and the Caribbean 16%. Children work across a range of employment sectors, including agriculture (which accounts for 70%), manufacturing, street trading, domestic work, and mining.2 Many children work because the benefits of working are perceived as greater than those of attending school.