Overview of Children's Work by Sector and Activityįarming, including tilling fields, planting seeds, watering crops, carrying heavy loads,† weeding, harvesting crops, and use of chemical products and machetes in the production of beans, corn, manioc, rice, and sweet potatoes (4-9)įishing, including maintaining fishing tools, baiting hooks, transporting heavy loads, using explosives, and salting, smoking, and packaging fish (4,6-9) (3)īased on a review of available information, Table 2 provides an overview of children's work by sector and activity. Source for all other data: International Labor Organization's analysis of statistics from Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 6 (MICS 6), 2017–2018. Source for primary completion rate: Data from 2015, published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2022. Statistics on Children's Work and Education Data on some of these indicators are not available from the sources used in this report. (1) Table 1 provides key indicators on children’s work and education in the DRC. Other gaps remain, including a lack of enforcement personnel, insufficient training for enforcement personnel, limited financial resources, and poor coordination of government efforts to address child labor.Ĭhildren in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in the forced mining of gold, tin ore (cassiterite), tantalum ore (coltan), and tungsten ore (wolframite), and are used in armed conflict, sometimes as a result of forcible recruitment or abduction by non-state armed groups. It also failed to take active measures to ensure that children are not inappropriately incarcerated, penalized, or physically harmed solely for unlawful acts as a direct result of being a survivor of the worst forms of child labor. The government did not publish labor or criminal law enforcement data. Children also mine cobalt ore (heterogenite) in the Copperbelt region. However, children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in the forced mining of gold, tin ore (cassiterite), tantalum ore (coltan), and tungsten ore (wolframite), and are used in armed conflict, sometimes as a result of forcible recruitment or abduction by non-state armed groups. In addition, First Lady Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi, in collaboration with the National Committee to Combat the Worst Forms of Child Labor and World Vision, hosted an advocacy workshop on combating child labor.
The National Action Plan to Combat the Worst Forms of Child Labor was extended to 2025. During the reporting period, the government allocated 40 percent of the national budget to primary education. In 2021, the Democratic Republic of the Congo made moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor.
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