At over three million, Peru has the highest child labour rate in the Americas. Officially
the practice is banned, but many poor families rely on the money their
children earn. Of the nation's three million child labourers, aged
between five and 17, 70 per cent of them are engaging in activities that
endanger their lives. Now, thanks to the nation's first
children's union - that monitors and defends minors who work - many of
those children are getting some added protection. Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez reports from Lima.
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