Colombia’s governmental child protection agency confirmed on Wednesday that child labor, while in decline, is still endemic across the country. In a statement, the head of the Colombian Institute of…
The number of children working in Colombia has fallen by nearly 300,000 in the past four years but child labor remains rife in rural areas, researchers have said. The percentage…
Police swept into Bogota’s main food market Corabastos and rescued 35 child laborers who illegally were employed to do heavy labor. The children were unloading trucks, carrying boxes, and packaging food at Colombia’s largest…
Almost one in every 10 children in Colombia is subjected to illegal child labor, especially in rural areas where more than 15% work rather than going to school, according to…
Colombia had made “significant advancement in efforts” to eliminate the worst forms of child labor but continues to fail to adequate follow up on child labor complaints, the US Labor Department…
As the UN marks its annual World Day Against Child Labour, one in every ten children in Colombia regularly works, national media reported Wednesday.
According to data from the National Department of Statistics (DANE) and repeated by Bogota’s mayor, child labor in Colombia’s capital has been reduced by 37% or 43,000 minors between 2011…
A local government report has drawn attention to high levels of child labor in central Colombia.
Colombia’s Ministry of Labor has created an alliance to combat child exploitation in Colombia’s impoverished mining regions, local media reported Wednesday.