Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – More than 1 million children aged 10-14 continue to work in Brazil, despite government moves against child labor, the daily Folha de Sao Paulo reported Wednesday. The report, citing census data collected 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 percent in 2000 to 6.2 percent in 2010. Folha de Sao Paulo said child labor 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 labor by 2020. “We are faced with the problem of invisible child labor, 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, Labor superintendent for the Brazilian state of Tocantins. Child labor is generally socially accepted in rural areas in Brazil. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/LkSmD Tags: Brazil, Child Labor Section: Latest News, South America
