Phillipines struggles to curb child labour

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In the Philippines there is a renewed push to stamp out child labour where over millions of children eke out a living as workers, miners and farm hands instead of going to school. The International Labour Organisation has put that number at more than five million children are working in sometimes hazardous conditions. But the government says its new policies will be able to eliminate child labor by 2016. Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan has their story.