Nearly 138 million of these children – about one in 17 – are engaged in child labour, including 54 million in hazardous work that endangers their health and safety, according to estimates by the ...

June 12 is World Day Against Child Labor. This is the first in a series of articles exploring the state of child labor today. As a moral issue, child labor seems straightforward. No one should spend ...

ON a rainy Monday morning, a young boy boards a bus carrying a basket of rice cakes, calling out “Puto, suman, sapin-sapin kayo diyan!” as he moves through the aisle. He appears to be no older than ...

ADDIS ABABA, June 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations says child labour is on the rise for the first time in 20 years, with millions more young people at risk of becoming child ...

Reporting progress made to tackle child labour in its cocoa supply chain, Nestlé said it aims at eradicating the practice but added ‘going to 100% requires huge efforts’. In 2012, Nestlé partnered ...

If there is a predictable outcome from the rollback of child labor laws now taking place in red states nationwide, it’s that a flood of injured children is on the way. We are now standing on the edge ...

Child labor is a significant global problem, particularly in the developing world. Businesses big and small can be part of the solution by ensuring their supply chains are completely free of child ...

GUIGLO, Ivory Coast — Five boys are swinging machetes on a cocoa farm, slowly advancing against a wall of brush. Their expressions are deadpan, almost vacant, and they rarely talk. The only sounds in ...

How a UNICEF-supported Integrated Social Services approach in Ghana is helping to protect children's right to stay in school and out of the workforce.

Child labor, often thought of as a problem only in other countries, is making headlines in the United States following a wave of Republican-led efforts to roll back protections in several states, most ...

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