Child Labor

Guest: Charita Castro, Division Chief for Research and Policy in the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking at the U.S. Department of Labor The latest report on Progress Against Child Labor from the International Labour Organization documents a positive trend downward in the prevalence of child labor globally. Even still, there are an estimated 168 million child laborers worldwide and half of them are forced to do hazardous work and the U.S. Department of Labor has released a report documenting the worst forms of child labor around the world.