Statistics on Working Children and Education

advancement in efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Prior to elections in August 2012, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) signed the Child Soldier Action Plan and the Action Plan to End the Killing and Maiming of Children in Contravention of International Law, which are still in effect. In addition, the Somalia National Army (SNA) made efforts to identify and remove underage personnel, including through the medical screening of new recruits. However, reports indicate that children continue to be recruited and used in the SNA. Children were also used by the Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a (ASWJ) militia and by al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization that is the main perpetrator of the abduction and use child soldiers in Somalia. Somalia continued to lack nearly all elements necessary to address the worst forms of child labor, including a solid legal framework, law enforcement, policies, and programs. Children continue to engage in the worst forms of child labor, many of them in dangerous activities in agriculture and some as child soldiers