• Child labor

    • It may be surprising, but child labor affects 1 in every 7 children on the planet. Millions of these children work under very dangerous conditions.

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  • Children trafficked

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    • Selling children

    As many as 1.2 million children are being trafficked every year. The children who are trafficked often work as slaves in farms, mines and industrial factories.

    Sold over and over again

    Boys and girls can be sold many times, and in different ways, for profit. The children often work long hours, and under very poor conditions. It is also not uncommon that they are exposed to toxic chemicals, dangerous machinery and extreme temperatures.

    Kumar, a child laborer, says:

    “It was like a prison, we were locked inside. We worked from 5 a.m. until midnight making carpets, and we slept among the machines” (Kumar, child laborer).

    Girl workers in Ghana

    “Stress; exhaustion; sunburn; too much heat; backache; long working hours; a lack of good drinking water; falling trees; tripping on ropes; wounds from machetes; using bare hands to apply fertilizer”. (Responses from girls when asked about working conditions in agriculture).

    It’s deadly

    The large majority of child slaves work seven days a week including holidays, and they typically do not get paid. 22,000 children are killed at work every year - more than 2 children every hour.

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