section_path: Terminology/Forced labour/Child soldiers and child labour
section_name: Child soldiers and child labour
paragraph_text: Child soldiers and child labour
  
  In 2007, Human Rights Watch estimated that 200,000 to 300,000 children served as soldiers in then-current conflicts. More girls under 16 work as domestic workers than any other category of child labour, often sent to cities by parents living in rural poverty as with the Haitian restaveks.