One in 10 children are laboring in the global economy today. Often forfeiting the chance to ever begin school, these children have the highest illiteracy rates in the world.
For further information please read Child Labor fact sheet and Child Labor industries.
Additional Information:
Child Labor and Cocoa written by Marie Ciccone
Child Labor and Mica By Ethel Howley, SSND
Child Labor and Technology by Pat Glinka, SSND
Child Labor and Mining By Sister Joan Pikiell
Child Labor in the Leather Industry written by Sister Maureen Michael Byrne,
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