A study by Unicef reveals, on the occasion of World Child Labor Day, that 160 million minors were forced to work in 2020, or 8.4 million more in four years. A first for twenty years.
They are invisible, but everywhere: servants between the walls of houses, workers hidden in workshops, toddlers hidden in the plantations. For the first time in 20 years, child labor has increased around the world, according to a UN report published on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labor, June 12. The number of working minors has thus increased from 152 million in 2016 to 160 million in 2020., or 8.4 million more in four years. “One in ten children is affected, it’s a huge subject,” comments Philippe Lévêque, general manager of Care France in an interview with France 24. The teams of our NGO had also observed this increase in the field, but we did not have scientific data to confirm it. It is now done, with this very exhaustive study carried out by the UN. ”