Girls, the main victims of child exploitation

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Irene Wanzila is 10 years old.

She works in Kayole Quarry in Nairobi, Kenya on September 29, 2020. AP - Brian Inganga

By: Raphaëlle Constant Follow |

Emmanuelle Bastide

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For the first time in 20 years, child labor is on the rise around the world.

160 million children including 63 million girls between 5 and 17 years old are victims.

This number could grow further under the effect of the pandemic and the economic upheavals that the health crisis has engendered.

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Because they are subjected to the most violent, dangerous and invisible forms of work, girls are particularly affected by this scourge.

They are in fact the first victims of trafficking, sexual exploitation or even domestic slavery.

Many have had to abandon the path to school or reconcile their schooling with their work.

How to fight against the work of girls?

Which are the most vulnerable countries? 

Show on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl  

With :

- Violaine Gagnet

, director of programs at

- André Alihonou

, program coordinator for the

, a Beninese association that works for the promotion of the rights of women, children and adolescents

A focus with 

, correspondent for RFI in Islamabad, Pakistan, on the situation of girls in Afghanistan.

Interview with

, college supervisor in Cotonou, Benin, at the microphone of 

.

She testifies to the phenomenon of early pregnancies in her establishment.

After childbirth, young girls drop out of school, forced to work to provide for their babies and to assume their new role of daughter-in-law. 

Interview with Léontine Adjovi, college supervisor in Cotonou

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