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11-08-2011, 03:40 PM
A study presented yesterday by the Ministry of Labor reveals that 8.5% (equal to 212,754 children) of the boys, girls and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 17 are engaged in activities considered to be dangerous in this country. Dangerous child labor is defined as any activity or occupation that, by its nature, tends to have adverse effects on the safety, physical or mental health and the moral development of children, such as work in motels and cabanas and other unhealthy environments. The study "Child Labor Dynamics in the Dominican Republic," also reflects the fact that child labor has fallen by 14% in the last ten years, which places the country as one of the nations which has done most to eradicate this evil.
The study says that there has been a reduction of 59,000 in the category of boys and girls and adolescents who work in economic production since the year 2000. The Minister of Labor, Francisco Dominguez Brito, in his role as the president of the National Directive Committee for the Fight against Child Labor, stressed that despite this good news, the rate of boys, girls and adolescents in economic activities is 1.6 points higher in the country than the average registered in Latin America and the Caribbean. He pointed out that the working population between 5 and 17 years of age totals 2.5 million, which represents 25.8% of people employed in the country. Of this number, 15.1%, equal to 380,877 children are engaged in economic activities.
12.2%, or 304,000, of the boys, girls and adolescents are in "child labor", which is defined as work prohibited or socially or morally undesirable or not appropriate for anyone under the age of 18. The study shows that the average age of those engaged in child labor is 12 years of age, but more than half, which is to say 62.6% of child workers are less than 13 years old. The report says that the situation should be the object of attention, since under the regulations of the Dominican educational system, the child should have finished the eighth grade by the age of 13, and if they work the probability that they will finish this level of study is reduced. It adds that most of the boys, girls and adolescents who work live in poor households and that the child labor lowers their chances of obtaining the qualifications needed to get a good job when they grow up.
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The study says that there has been a reduction of 59,000 in the category of boys and girls and adolescents who work in economic production since the year 2000. The Minister of Labor, Francisco Dominguez Brito, in his role as the president of the National Directive Committee for the Fight against Child Labor, stressed that despite this good news, the rate of boys, girls and adolescents in economic activities is 1.6 points higher in the country than the average registered in Latin America and the Caribbean. He pointed out that the working population between 5 and 17 years of age totals 2.5 million, which represents 25.8% of people employed in the country. Of this number, 15.1%, equal to 380,877 children are engaged in economic activities.
12.2%, or 304,000, of the boys, girls and adolescents are in "child labor", which is defined as work prohibited or socially or morally undesirable or not appropriate for anyone under the age of 18. The study shows that the average age of those engaged in child labor is 12 years of age, but more than half, which is to say 62.6% of child workers are less than 13 years old. The report says that the situation should be the object of attention, since under the regulations of the Dominican educational system, the child should have finished the eighth grade by the age of 13, and if they work the probability that they will finish this level of study is reduced. It adds that most of the boys, girls and adolescents who work live in poor households and that the child labor lowers their chances of obtaining the qualifications needed to get a good job when they grow up.
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