Govt: Hundreds of Venezuelan Children Victims of Child Labor in Colombia

A campaign by Colombia to eradicate child labor discovered nearly 5,000 children working in the past three months, including hundreds from economically stricken Venezuela, the government said on Tuesday. While child labor rates have fallen in recent years, overall about 850,000 children aged 5 to 17 are estimated to be working and not attending school full-time or at all, government figures show. Of the 5,000 cases of child labor found, more than a third were uncovered by government...

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