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Get the facts about child labor and how it affects impoverished children and their families.

• An estimated 246 million children are engaged in child labor.

• About 211 million children between ages 5 and 14 can be found working.

• Globally, one in six children work.

• Worldwide, 126 million children work in hazardous conditions.

• Every year more than 1 million children get pulled into the sex trade.

• An estimated 8.4 million children work under horrific circumstances: forced into debt bondage or other forms of slavery, prostitution, pornography, armed conflict or other illicit activities.

Sources: www.unicef.org, www.ilo.org, www.crin.org, www.woman.ch