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(33) Commercial sexual exploitation of children also occurs in drug production sites, near gold mines, along major highways and resting stops, and in fishing areas on Lake Victoria and the Turkana region. (29,30,38-40) A report by International Justice Mission and other NGOs observed that commercial sexual exploitation of children is often hidden, and is facilitated by hotel and lodge owners, bar owners, local tour guides, transportation providers, and sometimes young local women who act as recruiters for younger girls. (32,37) Both boys and girls are victims of commercial sexual exploitation in tourism-heavy areas on the Kenyan coast, and in Nairobi and Kisumu. Kenyan children are subjected to forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation, each sometimes as a result of human trafficking, both within and outside the country. ‡ Child labor understood as the worst forms of child labor per se under Article 3(a)–(c) of ILO C. † Determined by national law or regulation as hazardous and, as such, relevant to Article 3(d) of ILO C. Use in illicit activities, including drug trafficking (9,22,34,35)įorced begging, street vending, domestic work, herding livestock, fishing, and work on tobacco farms, each sometimes as a result of human trafficking (2,9,23,32,36,37) Scavenging,† including for scrap materials (9,22,25-27)Ĭommercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking (9,15,22,28-33) Transporting goods and people by bicycle,† motorcycle,† and handcart† (13,22,23) Working in slaughterhouses, including disposing of after-products and cleaning (12)ĭomestic work,† including caregiving (1,16,22-24) Mining† for gold, gemstones, and salt (1,12,20-22) Quarrying,† including for stones and coral (13) Overview of Children's Work by Sector and Activityįarming,† including the production of tea, coffee, khat ( miraa),† rice, sisal, sugarcane, tobacco, corn, flowers, and cotton (5-9,10,11)įishing,† including for tilapia, sardines, Nile perch, and other fish (12,13,16,17)Ĭonstruction,† including carrying heavy loads (12,18) (4)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 Population and Housing Census, 2009. Source for primary completion rate: Data from 2016, published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2021. Statistics on Children's Work and Education (1,2) Table 1 provides key indicators on children’s work and education in Kenya. Children also engage in child labor in agriculture. In addition, the government lacks a sufficient number of labor inspectors and financial resources to ensure that child labor laws are enforced.Ĭhildren in Kenya are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in domestic service and commercial sexual exploitation, each sometimes as a result of human trafficking. Kenya has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. However, children in Kenya are subjected to the worst forms of child labor, including in domestic service and commercial sexual exploitation, each sometimes as a result of human trafficking. In addition, the government enacted the National Prevention and Response Plan on Violence Against Children to coordinate multi-sectoral activity to address violence against children, including commercial sexual exploitation and other worst forms of child labor. The government took measures to reinvigorate its National Steering Committee on Child Labor, including by creating and convening the inaugural meeting of a Technical Working Committee, reinstituted county-level child labor committees, and increased the number of prosecutions for worst forms of child labor.
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In 2020, Kenya made moderate advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor.