Pandemic and Poverty Fuel Child Labor in Peru

Along a street in the historic center of Lima, 11-year-old Pedro makes chalk drawings on the sidewalk for at least four hours a day to bring some money home. He is one of thousands of children and adolescents in Peru who work as child laborers, which violates their human rights. CREDIT: Mariela Jara/IPS
By Mariela JaraLIMA, Jul 29 2022 (USNewsRank)
In the afternoons he draws with chalk on the…