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Children in Worst Forms of Labor Get Legal Protection

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The International Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labor
   has been universally ratified. The International Labor Organization
   saidthis is the first time in its history that all 187 of its member
   states have ratified an International Labor Convention.

   An estimated 152 million children are in child labor.
   Seventy-three-million are involved in hazardous work that the
   International Labor Organization defines as the worst forms of child
   labor.

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