Is going to school a form of child labor?

The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal for Education rests on children being free to go to school rather than working to support their families, while ensuring decent work (SDG 8) and eliminating all child labor will be impossible without quality education for all children. read more

A child worker chained to a machine / workplace in some hell hole or sexually exploited for profit would love to go to school, hating school is a bit of a luxury that rich kids (relatively speaking) can afford. read more

Producer organizations in many countries where child labor in agriculture is a risk -- Paraguay, Mexico, Belize, Colombia, Dominican Republic, the Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Kenya, Ethiopia and India, among others -- are establishing self-governing systems to monitor and remediate child labor. read more

Child labor lowers net primary enrollment ratios. There is a strong negative effect of child labor on school attendance. In some countries, school attendance rates of working children are only about half of those of non-working children. read more