Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
05/02/2013
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Carolina Sarres
Brazil Agency reporter
Brasilia - The Family Grant Program contributes to the reduction of child labor in the country, said the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Report on Child Labour, released today (29). In Brazil, there are approximately 3.4 million young people between 10 and 17 years in the labor market, according to the last Census of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 2010. According to the ILO report, Bolsa Família, since its inception, has reduced by 8.7% the number of children working in the field and 2.5% in urban areas.
According to the organization, social protection policies, as the Brazilian program, are crucial in combating this type of work, which affects about 215 million children in the world - more than half of which has activities considered dangerous.
"The report clearly demonstrates that investing in social protection through social protection floors defined at the national level is a key part of the answer in the fight against child labor, which also includes access to decent jobs for adults and education for children "said the director of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour of the ILO, Constance Thomas. ILO estimates indicate that about 75% of the world population - 5 billion people - have no access to comprehensive social protection.
For the organization, the dynamics of child labor obeys the vulnerability of areas associated with poverty, against which the social security plays a key role for their mitigation. According to the report of the ILO in poor places, where there is little access to credit, households resort to child labor to meet their basic needs and combat the uncertainties of the economic context.
Poverty is the main factor upon which the ILO justifies the importance of floors and social security systems that include public employment programs, health protection and persons with disabilities, unemployment insurance and security adapted to childhood.
Editing: Fabio Massalli
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