With millions of children employed as domestic labour across the world, what can be done to end the practice?
World Day Against Child Labour was marked on Wednesday, and a new report released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) paints a grim picture of children working in the shadows.
ILO calls for concerted and joint action at national and international levels to eliminate child domestic labour.
The report estimates that 10.5 million children around the world - most of them under age - are employed as domestic workers in people's homes, in hazardous and sometimes slavery-like conditions. More than half of these child labourers are aged between five and 14 years old - and almost three quarters of them are girls.
See full Article: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2013/06/201361373236510972.html
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