The Lower Subansiri district administration, in collaboration with the Mahatma Gandhi Centre (MGC) here, organised an awareness programme on child labour, drug abuse, and skill development as part of ...

Marine Jouvin works for Touton S.A. The evidence of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa became public knowledge in the late 1990s. This followed press reports documenting the existence of ...

Child labour in Bangladesh is typically associated with factories and hazardous industries. Yet a recent experience by the law students from East west University revealed another reality of the street ...

Every year, on June 12, World Day Against Child Labour is an occasion to promote awareness of child labour exploitation around the world and call for action. This day is an opportunity for us to ...

United Nations — Although global rates of child labour have declined since 2020, the practice remains a serious and persistent violation of children's rights, undermining their safety, social ...

At the end of a hectic day of work, many people in Dili, the capital city of Timor-Leste, choose to spend a few minutes of relaxation by the beach area. Ano and his friends, all in third grade, also ...

The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) declared 2021 to be the year for the elimination of child labour. But a report published in June last year found that the number of children in work ...

Kiwengwa, Tanzania — As the tide falls on Zanzibar's western coast, 13-year-old Asha* moves across the reef, her gown flapping in knee-deep water. She carries a plastic basin and a knife. Since dawn, ...

A federal appeals court in the US on 5 March dismissed a suit against five major tech companies over cobalt-mining deaths of children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Court of Appeals ...

Governments, employers’ and workers’ organisations, and international partners have adopted a new Global Framework for Action to accelerate the elimination of child labour, calling for stronger ...