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Shedding light on child labour in fisheries
11.05.2010 09:38 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
More attention should be paid to the plight of child workers in the fisheries sector, according to a group of experts convened by FAO and the International Labour Organization (ILO) in order to shine light on this often-overlooked problem.
«Worldwide, 132 million girls and boys aged 5 to 14 years old work in agriculture this figure includes children working in fisheries and aquaculture,» says Rolf Willmann, of FAOs Fisheries and Aquaculture Department. «But because child labor in fisheries is so widely dispersed in small-scale and family enterprises or is actively hidden by employers it is difficult to obtain hard data on the true extent of the problem,» he added. «This makes it difficult for many policy-makers to tackle it.»
To start plugging information gaps, FAO, in cooperation with the ILO, recently convened a workshop of international experts to share information and come up with policy recommendations specific to child labor in fisheries. Core recommendations will be presented by FAO at a major international conference on child labor set to occur in The Hague May 1011.
The workshop marks the first time the problem of child labor in fisheries has been dealt with in a coordinated way at the global level.
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