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According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), poverty is the leading cause of child labor in the world (including Brazil). Children are forced to work to supplement family income, eliminating their studies and social lives. [3] [4] Since the enactment of the 1988 constitution, child labor has been illegal in the country. [2]
The List of countries by child labour rate provides rankings of countries based on their rates of child labour. Child labour is defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as participation in economic activity by underage persons aged 5 to 17. Child work harms children, interferes with their education, and prevents their development.
Child labour in Brazil, leaving after collecting recyclables from a landfill. Child labour has been a consistent struggle for children in Brazil ever since Portuguese colonisation in the region began in 1500. [88] Work that many children took part in was not always visible, legal, or paid.
A recent U.S. Department of Labor study showed that Brazil still employs children mostly in the agricultural sector, as well as the mining and textile industries with a total of 16 products. [6] It was estimated by the International Labor Organization that in 2014, forced labor generated $150 billion in annual world wide profit. [7]
Brazil is participating of the One Laptop Per Child project, [37] aiming at providing low cost laptops to poor children in developing countries, but the program is moving slowly. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative [38] finds that Brazil is doing 86.8% of what should be possible at its level of income for the right to education. [39]
Brazil's restrictive abortion laws mean many Brazilian women seeking to end pregnancies resort to unsafe illegal abortions and botched procedures, which cause dozens of deaths every year.
Demonstrations occurred almost daily, protesting low wages, child labor, high rent and food prices, among other issues. [a] [b] They were organized by workers themselves, with support from union, anarchist and socialist leaderships. [13]
There were 123 additional deaths of children under age 10 from 2008 to 2019 from ALL following the expansion of soybean production in Brazil, the researchers found.