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Child labor in Egypt
Economic necessity is forcing even the Ministry of Agriculture of Egypt to overlook regulations restricting child employment in the country. The Ministry owns about 10% of Egypt's cotton fields. Eight out ten children who work are employed in agriculture or related areas. The Egyptian Center for Social Research has reported that nine out of 100, or 1.5 million children under the age of 14, are used as labor in Egypt. These children comprise 7% of the country's total labor force.See the full content of this document
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An economic essential?
More than a million and a half Egyptian children under the age of 14 constitute seven per cent of the country's work force. In impoverished rural areas children, sometimes as young as five, compete for jobs offering a few piastres a day in order to help eke out scant family resources. But while the economics might sometimes seem to m...
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