Child labor in Colombia: declining, but still endemic
Colombia’s governmental child protection agency confirmed on Wednesday that child labor, while in...
Tag: Child Labor
Colombia makes progress on child labor: study
The number of children working in Colombia has fallen by nearly 300,000 in the past four years but...
Police rescue 35 minors working at Bogota’s main food supply center
Police swept into Bogota’s main food market Corabastos and rescued 35 child laborers who...
9% of Colombia’s children subjected to child labor
Almost one in every 10 children in Colombia is subjected to illegal child labor, especially in...
Colombia made ‘significant advancement’ in fighting ‘worst forms’ of child labor: US
Colombia had made “significant advancement in efforts” to eliminate the worst forms of...
1 in 10 minors in Colombia engaged in child labor
As the UN marks its annual World Day Against Child Labour, one in every ten children in Colombia...
Child labor in Bogota down 37% since 2011
According to data from the National Department of Statistics (DANE) and repeated by Bogota’s...
More than 17,000 children working in central Colombia
A local government report has drawn attention to high levels of child labor in central Colombia....
Colombia Labor Ministry project seeks to curb child labor in mines
Colombia’s Ministry of Labor has created an alliance to combat child exploitation in Colombia’s...
Colombia makes ‘significant advancements’ in efforts to stop child labor: US report
Colombia made “significant advances” in its attempts to combat child labor in 2012,...
More than 1 million children in Colombia subjected to child labor
More than one million children, almost 10% of all minors in Colombia, work to sustain themselves...
Colombian govt ‘indifferent’ to child mine labor: Mayor
Hundreds of children are working in gold mines in central Tolima department and the Colombian government is “totally indifferent,” said one local mayor. A study conducted by the mayor of Ataco, Jose Antonio Jimenez,...
