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Tunisian children shoulder heavy burden
Despite the post-revolution era triumph, thousands of Tunisian children are born to live under the breadline with their families facing hard and dying living conditions. Children are unfortunately obliged to be subject to work in dangerous jobs that may threaten their health as well as their future life...In a country where education is free and compulsory...Hundreds of children are still found in fields, factories, street corners, in sidewalk cafés, shopping centers, garbage dumps and in private houses...According to a report issued in 2012 by the Tunisian statistic center, more than 6,900 of Tunisian children are laborers, and they are struggling miserable living conditions and threatened to be economically and sexually abused.