Brazil Reduces Child Labour By 43 Per Cent In Decade
Brazil Reduces Child Labour By 43 Per Cent In Decade
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- The number of child labourers in Brazil has fallen from over 5 million in 2004 to 2.8 million in 2014, a 43 per cent decrease, China's Xinhua news agency reported Brazil's government as saying on Friday.
According to Minister for Social Development, Tereza Campello, their profile has also changed -- going from a majority of uneducated children and from low income families to teenagers above 14 that go to school and are from stable income families.
Brazil's constitution bans children under age 13 from working, and requires communities to report such situation, especially in cases of irregular domestic work, despite the difficulty that children were usually hidden from public.
Campello said given some poorer families' needs for their children to work, teenagers of age 14 and 15 could take apprenticeship programmes as long as they continue school.
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