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    Child labor in decline: Life gets better for 94 million children

    Aug 28, 2019 1 minute
    Students work on writing lessons at an early childhood education center next to a brick kiln in Dharke Bazar, Nepal, in April 2016. Better Brick Nepal, a program aimed at eliminating child labor in brick kilns across the country, set up the education center in 2015.

    Almost 100 million more children are getting to have a childhood than at the beginning of the 21st century.

    Child labor has dropped by 38% since 2000, according to data from international humanitarian organization Save the Children. “In 2000, there were 246

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