{"id":980,"date":"2009-03-04T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2009-03-04T11:12:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T15:12:41","slug":"child-labour-in-tt%e2%80%a6a-well-kept-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Child labour in T&#038;T\u2026A well-kept secret?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Cherisse Moe<br \/>\nMarch 2nd, 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/features\/life\/2009\/03\/03\/child-labour-tt\">guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/youths.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Child labour in T&#038;T\u2026A well-kept secret?' \/>The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (Unicef) defines child labour as work that exceeds a minimum number of hours, depending on the age of a child and on the type of work. Such work is considered harmful to the child and should therefore be eliminated. There remains no official statistics on the magnitude of child labour in T&#038;T. However, rapid assessment studies conducted by the International Labour Organisation, (ILO), in 2002, uncovered some alarming facts.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nChildren were found to be engaged, in what the ILO considers to be the worst forms of child labour \u2014agriculture, scavenging, domestic work and commercial sexual activity. Additionally, all child labourers, except those engaged in commercial sexual activity, worked long hours on a daily basis, for meager remuneration.<\/p>\n<p><i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/features\/life\/2009\/03\/03\/child-labour-tt\" title=\"Child labour in T&#038;T\u2026A well-kept secret?\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/a> <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cherisse Moe March 2nd, 2009 guardian.co.tt The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (Unicef) defines child labour as work that exceeds a minimum number of hours, depending on the age of a child and on the type of work. Such work is considered harmful to the child and should therefore be eliminated. There remains no official &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=980\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Child labour in T&#038;T\u2026A well-kept secret?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,1,25],"tags":[85,83,84],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complaints","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-sex-crimes","tag-abuse","tag-child-labour","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}