Iraq: an exploited generation
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More than a million children were already working in Iraq before the coronavirus crisis.
AP - Andrew Medichini
By: Lucile Wassermann Follow
20 mins
They are only children and yet, here and there they work in the fields, elsewhere in the workshops, very often, frail figures in rags, we brush against them in the streets.
For the first time in 20 years, child labor has increased across the world.
They are now nearly 160 million working, or 8.4 million more than in 2016. In particular: the coronavirus crisis and the increase in poverty.
One example among many, Iraq.
There, the number of children forced to work has grown steadily since the 1990s, due to conflict, forced displacement and economic challenges.
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“Iraq: an exploited generation”, a Grand report by Lucile Wassermann.
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