(ANSA) - Rome, June 11 - There are at least 340,000 children
under age 16 in Italy who work or are forced to work, and 168
million children and adolescents who are forced to work
worldwide, according to statistics released by UN agency
International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Thursday, on the eve
of World Day Against Child Labour.
Together with Save the Children, ILO is calling for a
national program in Italy on child labour to prevent and combat
labour exploitation of children and adolescents in the country.
Italy's national child abuse hotline, Telefono Azzurro, on
Thursday reported that 84% of child labour exploitation cases
reported to the organisation involve begging, 85% of which
involve foreign children.
Of those cases, 71.4% of children are between the ages of
0-10 years old, with nearly half of all cases, or 41.3%,
reported in southern Italy, said Telefono Azzurro.
Giovedì 11 Giugno 2015, 17:07
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