Child labor has been substantially reduced in Latin America, but 5.7 million children below the legal minimum age are still working, and a large proportion of them work in precarious, high-risk conditions or are unpaid, which constitute new forms of slave labor.
For the International Labor Organisation (ILO), child labor includes children working before they reach the minimum legal age or carrying out work that should be prohibited, according to Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, in force since 2000. ...