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Children and youths account for half of the eight million people living in Bolivia. The ILO and UNICEF estimated that the sugar cane harvest mobilises almost 10,000 children and adolescents (2006:26). The National Institute of Statistics (INE) and UNICEF estimate that 2,540 children work in the sugar cane harvest (zafra) in Santa Cruz (2004:47); OASI, ILO and AECI report 2,619 youths participating in the zafra of Tarija (2006:22). In Bermejo, in 2004, there were 2,349 children and adolescents of whom 1,315 were of school-going age (Guevara 2004:4).
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Baas, L. (2010). Children on Bolivian Sugar Cane Plantations. In: Lieten, G. (eds) Hazardous Child Labour in Latin America. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0177-9_10
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