The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how people in other countries live and work and play teaches us to respect them and promote peace everywhere.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.