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Madrid (Agenzia Fides) - Of the 215 million working children throughout the world, more than half, 115 million, work in dangerous conditions for their health, safety and emotional and moral development. This is what emerges from the VIII phase of the SCREAM Programme (Protection of Children's Rights through Education, Arts and Mass Media) presented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) for Spain. Every year throughout the world, 22 000 children die because of work, and many others report accidents and diseases, higher compared to adults. Every minute a working child gets injured, suffers injury or psychological trauma connected with work. The program was launched in 2003 with the goal of making students, teachers and citizens conscious about the worst forms of child labor. This year, among other outreach activities in other cultural and creative areas, photographic exhibitions have been organized with pictures concerning the living conditions and child labor abuse in the states of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, where there are children working in the fields, landfills, as domestic servants, construction sites or mines. In 2010, in The Hague, during the World Conference on Child Labour, the need to proceed more quickly towards the elimination, in 2016, of the worst forms of child labor was highlighted. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 28/12/2011)
