Panama, Costa Rica
Fight Child Labour
(Prensa Latina) Many
indigenous children work
on coffee, sugar cane,
vegetable and oil palm
farms in Panama and
Costa Rica despite
official efforts to
eradicate that scourge.
Panama and Costa Rica
signed on April 19 a
commitment to pool
efforts to reduce or
eradicate child labor,
as the most vulnerable
sector of the Central
American population.
International Labor
Organization statistics
rate at 60,000 the Ngobe
Bugle adults and
children that emigrate
every year to coffee
plantations in San Vito
and Los Santos, Costa
Rica.
La Prensa daily says
that at the border
province of Chiriqui a
total of 15.5 percent
are 10 to 14 year-old
children, while 41.4
percent are teenagers
from 15 to 17 years.
The Comptroller's Office
Census and Statistics
Office calculates at
139,509 the population
of that indigenous
community on July 1,
2007. |
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