Government and educational leaders from across Latin America gathered in Bogota on Tuesday to come up with strategies to combat child labor, a problem on the rise in Colombia.
The meeting in Bogota was hosted by Colombia’s ministry of labor and the International Labor Organization and was attended by representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Equador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and the United States. Colombian delegates included the country’s minister of labor, and the director of the Colombian Institute of Family Wellbeing.
There are an estimated 215 million child laborers in the world.