By IINA,
Sana’a : An official study has showed that about 700,000 Yemeni children aged 6 to 14 years are working in the streets of main cities of Yemeni provinces because of poverty. Yemen’s Central Statistical Organization (CSO), the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Social Fund for Development and The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are currently preparing for the launch of a field survey of the employment of children in Yemen, the official Saba news agency reported.
The study pointed a significant growing of the phenomenon due to deteriorating economic conditions of the population and widening the circle of poverty.
The study, published recently by Social Affairs and Labor Ministry, said that the rate of child labor in Yemen had increased “last year to 700,000 children comparing 400,000 children in 2000 were working in occupations that are not commensurate with their ages”. The study attributed the reasons of this phenomenon to economic factors, including the spread of poverty and unemployment, which lead to the involvement of these children in the labor market to earn money and increase family income.