One in five minors between the ages of 14 and 15 are child labourers
Marina Raj – Vatican
Save the Children has announced that the number of child laborers is increasing due to poverty and unfair allocations and this is not a game but something that needs to be stopped.
On Tuesday, April 4, at a meeting held in Rome, the Save the Children organization, which has highlighted the survey of child labor in Italy, has announced that one in five children between the ages of 14 and 15 is a child worker.
Save the Children, an international organization that has been fighting to save children at risk and ensure their future for more than 100 years, has published a report on child labor in Italy and explained the organization’s definitions, its characteristics and its evolution.
The organization stated that children who leave primary school lose their lives in business, agriculture, construction work, restaurants, etc. in Italy, and said that due to the social communication devices of the modern world, students are not able to fully learn primary education.
3,36,000 children and adolescents between the ages of 7 and 15 are employed as child laborers at a rate of 6.8 percent i.e. 1 in 15, and 58,000 youths between the ages of 14-15 years and 27.8 percent are engaged in work detrimental to their schooling and well-being.