AMMAN —
Secretary-General of the
Ministry of Labor Faruq Al-Hadidi said on Saturday
that the ministry has “significant reservations” about figures released by the
NGO Workers’ House on child labor in the Kingdom, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
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The figures “were not based on a government
source”, Hadidi said, adding that the ministry had not been consulted for the
study.
On Saturday, the
Workers’ House issued a
report on World Human Rights Day, celebrated around the world on December 10
each year; it is the day when, in 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The report urged development of policies to
reduce poverty and improve the social conditions of families with working
children. It estimated the number of working children in the Kingdom at over
100,000, 45,000 of them in occupations deemed hazardous; before the COVID-19
pandemic nearly 76,000 children were found to be working.
Hadidi said that the Ministry of Labor has
requested a new survey of child labor in Jordan to provide information about
“the actual figures”.
“It is not possible to rely on figures
released without statistical surveys,” he said, adding: “The indicators that we
have do not correspond to the indicators found in the (Worker’s House) study.”
The last such survey was conducted in 2016,
he said, noting that the
Department of Statistics is the official entity
mandated to issue economic and social reports.
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