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Appendix C

              Examples of Where Children Work*

Country

Agriculture and Fishing

Manufacturing, Mining and Quarrying

Services

Bangladesh

Shrimp and other seafood; tobacco

Bidis (cigarettes); garments

Bakeries and confectionaries; carpentry; commercial sex workers; communications; domestic servants; hotels; porters; restaurants; small retail shops; street vendors; transport workers

Brazil

Animal husbandry; cocoa; coffee; cotton; dairy farms; fishing; fruits and vegetables (e.g. apples; bananas; beans; Brazil nuts; cassava; corn; garlic; grapes; guava; oranges and other citrus fruits; peanuts; pineapple; potatoes; rice; tomatoes; watermelon); poultry; rubber; sisal; sugar cane; tea; tobacco; tree resin

Ceramics; charcoal; crates; electronics; footwear; furniture; garments; handicrafts; leather tanning; metallurgy; plastics; rock salt; sawmills/wood-pulp; stone quarrying; textiles; tin-ore and gold mining

Auto repair; bakeries; car washers; commercial sex workers; construction; domestic servants; drug trafficking; garbage pickers; messengers/delivery boys; newspaper delivery; parking garage guards; retail shops; shoeshines; small businesses; street vendors; wood delivery

Egypt

Cotton; jasmine

Bricks; carpets; footwear; handicrafts; leather tanning; plastics; textiles

Auto repair; domestic servants; garbage collection; scavengers; shop assistants; small workshops; street vendors

Guatemala

Beans; broccoli; cardamon; coffee; cotton; flowers; macadamia nuts; melons; raspberries; snow peas; sugar cane; tea

Bricks; fireworks; lime extracting; stone quarrying

Car washers; commercial sex workers; construction; domestic servants; scavengers; shoeshines; stonemasons; street vendors

India

Animal husbandry; cinchona (quinine); cardamon; cashew nuts; coffee; fishing; forestry; rubber; small scale agriculture; tea; tobacco

Aluminum; base metals; bidis (cigarettes); brassware; bricks; cardboard boxes; carpets; fireworks; footwear; garments and textiles; gemstones; glass; jewelry; leather tanning; locks; matches; mining; packaging and manufacturing workshops; seafood processing; silk; slates; soccer balls and other sporting goods; stainless steel silverware; stone breaking; stone quarrying; synthetic jewels; tiles

Auto repair; bakeries; bus/taxi conductors; cement recyclers; commercial sex workers; construction; domestic servants; flower shops; hotels; rag pickers; railway porters; restaurants; rickshaw pullers; shoeshines; street barbers; street vendors; tea shops

Kenya

Animal husbandry; coffee; corn; dairy products; fishing; pineapples; rice; sisal; sugar cane; tea; wheat

Mining; salt harvesting; soapstone carving; stone quarrying

Bus/taxi conductors; commercial sex workers; domestic servants; scavengers; street vendors; tourism

Mexico

Coffee; fruits and vegetables (e.g. broccoli; cucumbers; eggplant; grapes; onions; peppers snow-peas; strawberries; tomatoes); tobacco

Apparel; bricks; fireworks; footwear; traditional handicrafts

Auto repair shops; bars; cafes; car washers; cashiers; commercial sex workers; construction; domestic servants; drug trafficking; grocery packers; hawkers; public markets; shoeshines; small workshops; street performers; street vendors; trash collectors; windshield wipers

Nepal

Animal husbandry; small-scale agriculture; tea

Baskets; bricks; carpets; garments; iron smithing; mining; pottery; stone quarrying; stone breaking; wood products

Bakeries; bus/taxi conductors; commercial sex workers; construction; domestic servants; hotels; porters; restaurants; sewing; tea shops; transportation; weaving

Nicaragua

Animal husbandry; bananas; beans; coffee; corn; cotton; fishing; forestry; rice; sugar; tobacco

Rock breaking

Cargo loaders; car washers; cemetery assistants; commercial sex workers; domestic servants; scavengers; shoeshines; small shops; stevedores; street vendors; vehicle guards

Pakistan

Fishing; small-scale agriculture; tobacco

Bricks; carpets; footwear; furniture; garments; handicrafts; leather tanning; paper and packaging; power looms; soccer balls and other sporting goods; stone/brick crushing; surgical instruments

Auto and engineering workshops; commercial sex workers; construction; domestic servants; scavengers; shop assistants; tailoring

Peru

Asparagus; coca; coffee; cotton; fruit; rice; shrimp

Bricks; fireworks; gold mining; moralla (dehydrated potatoes) processing; pumice stone; stone quarrying

Bus/taxi conductors; car washers; commercial sex workers; domestic servants; leaflet distributors; market workers; messengers; street entertainers; street vendors; scavengers; vehicle guards

Philippines

Fishing; forestry/ logging; fruits and vegetables (e.g. corn); palm plantations; poultry farms; rattan; rice; seaweed; sugar cane

Charcoal production; coconut processing; cooking oil; fireworks; fish packing/processing; food products; garments and embroidery; gold mining; handicrafts; mat-weaving/sewing; metal working; print shops; sardine factory; stone quarrying; wood and rattan/buri/bamboo furniture; wood products

Bars; car guards; car washers; catering; commercial sex workers; construction; cooks; dancers; domestic servants; entertainers; gas stations; grocery/bakeshops; janitors; newspapers sales; porters; receptionists; restaurants; stevedores; street vendors; wholesale/retail trade

South Africa

Corn; fruits and vegetables; sugar cane; tobacco

Bricks; textiles

Car parkers; car washers; coal carriers; catering; commercial sex workers; corner cafes; domestic servants; retail shops; taxi fare collectors

Tanzania

Animal husbandry; cloves; coffee; corn; green algae (seaweed); fishing; pyrethrum; rubber; sisal; sugar cane; tea; tobacco; wheat

Cotton ginning; fish processing; gemstones; mining; sawmills; stone crushing; stone quarrying

Auto repair; bars; cafes; carpentry; car washers; commercial sex workers; domestic servants; markets; restaurants; scavengers; shoeshines; small shops; street vendors; tourism

Thailand

Fishing; garlic; lychee; onions; rubber; shrimp and other seafood; sugar cane

Artificial flowers; candy wrapping; dolls; embroidery; fishing net production; footwear; garments; gems; glass; leather; paper cups; plastic products; rattan and wood furniture; shrimp and seafood processing; silver jewelry

Bakeries; car washers;commercial sex workers construction; delivery boys/porters; domestic servants; gas stations;karaoke; mechanical repair shops; restaurants; retail shops; street vendors

Turkey

Animal husbandry; corn; cotton; fruits and vegetables (e.g. apricots, figs, lemons, nuts, oranges, raisins); tea; tobacco; wheat

Auto parts manufacturing; bricks; carpets; cement; footwear/leather; garments; metal industry; textiles

Auto repair; commercial sex workers; domestic servants; hotels; scavengers; shoeshines; street vendors; tourism; windshield washers

There have been reports of forced or bonded child labor in these industries/occupations.

* Countries included in this table are the 16 countries visited by U.S. Department of Labor officials for this report. The industries and occupations listed are not necessarily exhaustive, and the order in which they are listed is alphabetical and not an indication of the magnitude of child labor in each industry or occupation. The number of industries and occupations cited as employing child workers in a given country does not necessarily reflect the pervasiveness of child labor in that country, since there has been more extensive research on the incidence of child labor in some countries than others.


This report was produced by the staff of the International Child Labor Program and is published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs.
Acknowledgements.

 

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