Ghana Has 1.3 Million Child Labourers

A national child labour survey conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that over 28 per cent of children of school going age are out of school with most of them working.

It further showed that about 1,273,294 children are engaged in child labour throughout the country.

Mrs. Sylvia Hinson Ekong, the National Programmes Manager of International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour, ILO/IPEC, revealed these at the opening of the children’s forum towards national child labour policy development in Accra.

The forum, she said, was part of measures to stem child labour and also to solicit the children’s view towards policy development on child labour in Ghana.

She said her outfit was collaborating with the Ministry of Justice and Attorney General’s Department for the development of a child-trafficking law.