UNICEF Facts and Figures - 1998 (other)

written by UNICEF

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In developing countries... almost 3 billion people -- half of humanity -- do not have access to sanitation, a denial of the right to a living standard adequate for health and well-being.
In 1997, nearly 50 million people -- at least half of them children -- were uprooted from their homes, either displaced within their own countries or forced to flee across borders as refugees. warfare
The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that 250 million children from age 5 to 14 are working, mainly in developing countries -- one child out of every four. Another 150 million to 200 million children, most of them girls, do unpaid domestic work for their families. ... In some countries, up to 80% of working children labour seven days a week. child labor
The multibillion-dollar illegal sex market each year ensnares an estimated 1 million children, the majority of them in Asia. poverty child welfare