100 Million Children in the World Rough Work

Figures for child workers around the world are still very high, accounting for hundreds of millions of children. More than 100 million of them work in harsh and dangerous sector workers, high risk of injury or even death.

According to reports the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the Day Against Child Labor Around the World, Sunday, June 12, 2011, estimated that there are 115 million children working as laborers in the world. This figure is half of the total number of child laborers around the world who reach 215 million children.

The work they do from manufacturing jobs to the job dangerous in mining. "Although there are important developments in recent years, but the number of child laborers worldwide, mainly blue-collar workers, is still very high," said Director General of ILO, Juan Somavia, quoted by CNN.

"Lowering the number of jobs that threaten the safety, morals and health of children must be a common priority and urgency," she added.

According to ILO data, every minute, the child laborers around the world have an accident, illness, trauma, and death. This figure is higher accident rate than adult workers in the same sector.

"When I was 12 years old they gave me a job with a knife. Many times I cut my hand. Every week, there's a new scar. Hand me save a lot of stories," said Jose M, 17, child labor in the agricultural sector in the United States, to Human Rights Watch.

Figures for the largest child laborers are in Asia and the Pacific with the figure reached 5.6 percent of total child workers. The second largest number are in Latin America, Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa, with 6.7 to 15, 1 percent of the total.