Morocco Is Working to Combat Child Labor

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Thanks to a targeted approach by the Moroccan government to eradicate child labor, the number of working children in the North African country has decreased by 59.1 percent since 2017, according to figures from the Moroccan Government Planning Bureau (HCP). However, there are still 101,000 children between the ages of 7 and 17 who are out of school and working full-time. Morocco appears to be on track to achieve its own target: no more child lab…