Over 100 Million Children in Dangerous Jobs
Submitted on June 15, 2011
By Robert Evans - June 15, 2011
Over 115 million of the world's children and young teenagers, or more than 7 percent of the total, are engaged in dangerous and life-threatening jobs, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Friday...[A] U.N. investigator said child labour was in great demand by employers because it was cheap "and because children are naturally more docile, easier to discipline than adults, and too frightened to complain."
