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More than 1 million underage children continue to work in Brazil
Dec 28, 2011, 16:52 GMT
Rio de Janeiro - More than 1 million children aged 10-14 continue to work in Brazil, despite government moves against child labour, the daily Folha de Sao Paulo reported Wednesday.
The report, citing census data colllected by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), shows however that the efforts of the authorities have paid off to some extent.
The proportion of Brazilian children and teenagers who work for a living has fallen from 6.6 per cent in 2000 to 6.2 per cent in 2010.
Folha de Sao Paulo said child labour is a particularly big problem in the Brazilian Amazonia, where close to 10 per cent of all children work.
Brazilian authorities have set themselves the goal of eradicating child labour by 2020.
'We are faced with the problem of invisible child labour, in places that are hard to get to either due to distance or for legal issues that prevent us from entering a private home,' said Marcos Calixto, Labour superintendent for the Brazilian state of Tocantins.
Child labour is generally socially accepted in rural areas in Brazil.
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