Panama Suffers Child
Labour
PANAMA - Child labour in Panama
reaches 114,168 minors between five and 17
years of age, with 59 percent of them
involved in agricultural activities,
official sources informed.
According to Labour and Social Development
Minister Alma Cortes, as many as 24,401
children and adolescents joined that
category in the last year.
The 2008 National Poll on Child Labour had
reported 89,767 children affected by this
kind of activity. Amid this situation, the
Committee for Eradication of Child Labour
and Protection of Adolescent Workers,
presided over by First Lady Marta Linares de
Martinelli, called for a change of
strategies.
Linares de Martinelli said it is unfair that
children and adolescents in the country lack
the opportunity to get education and health
development, because they have to sacrifice
to help their families.
Panama hopes to be the first Central
American nation to end the worst forms of
child labour by 2015, and fully eradicate it
by 2020. |
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