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By law, a child is anyone who is under the age of 18 years old. Economically active children is any child who does any kind of work. 317 million children are economically active. Out of those 317 million children, 218 million children are child laborers. A child laborer is a child who does work that either prevents them from going to school, or is dangerous.

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Unconditional Worst Forms of Child Labor

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Unconditional Worst Forms of Child Labor

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Of the 218 million child laborers, 126 million are doing hazardous work. 8.8 million children are engaged in unconditional worst forms of child labor including slavery, armed conflict, trafficking, and drug production, which has been declared illegal by the international community.

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The CRC is the one of the most important legal documents defining children's rights. The U.S. is one of the only two countries who have not signed it. The U.S.violates the CRC in three main ways. Conditions of children in prisons, detention of children by the Citizenship and Immigration Service, and the use of children as soldiers.

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A lack of birth records and easily forged documents make it hard to keep children out of factories. Many people argue that children working in factories are learning valuable skills or earning their family's only income. One-third of child laborers live in India.

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Countries in which the rate of child labor is less than 10% are The United States, Ireland, and Brazil. 11-20%: Mexico, Zambia, India, Latin America and the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and The Pacific, and all the countries not researched (combined). 21-30%: Afghanistan. More than 31%: Niger, Ethiopia, and Cambodia.

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14% of all children in the world are laborers and 22,000 children die in work-related accidents.

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Half of all economically active children also attend school.

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Examples of work children do around the world in order from least to most amount of children: armed conflict, illicit activities, mines, trafficked children, slavery, industry, service industry, and agriculture.

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Children may do work for a couple of reasons. Their family may need the extra money due to poverty or the schools could be so bad that it is more beneficial. People hire children because they can get more work and pay them less, as most children don't know or understand their rights.

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Around the world, one in every seven children is a child laborer.