Tag: children worldwide

• Thursday, June 13th 2013 - 06:59 UTC

  Millions of underage children worldwide working in hazardous conditions

  

  An estimated 10.5 million children worldwide, most of them under age, are working as domestic workers in people’s homes, in hazardous and sometimes slavery-like conditions, says the ILO. Six and a half million of these child labourers are aged between five and 14 years-old. More than 71% are girls.