How coronavirus could wipe out two decades of progress in the war against child labor. A boy collects wheat from a thresher in Peshawar, Pakistan, in May 2020. (Muhammad Sajjad / Associated Press) ...

World Day Against Child Labour highlights the urgent need to end child exploitation worldwide, advocating education and safety for all children.

To address the issue of child labor, in 2002, the International Labor Organization launched the World Day Against Child Labor.It is commemorated annually on June 12. The day is intended to raise ...

"It is long past time we bring our child labor laws into the 21st century and fight back against the employers, contractors and subcontractors that violate them," Casey told USA TODAY.

Labor and Employment Secretary Bienvenido E. Laguesma was a panelist in last month’s World Day Against Child Labor High-Level Event at the Palais Des Nations also in Geneva, Switzerland. In a ...

June 12 was World Day Against Child Labor. This is the second in a series of articles exploring the state of child labor today. The image of a child chained to a loom was emblazoned in my mind ...

And nowhere is that more true than in New Bedford, Massachusetts, as Frontline viewers found out recently after an episode about child labor in the city’s seafood processing plants.

In 2014, the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank, published “A Case Against Child Labor Prohibitions,” arguing that such laws stifled opportunity for poor—and especially Black—children ...

Child labor is a big concern across the world. It is particularly acute in countries in the global south, where it is ...

Almost every country has committed to preventing child labor, ... We can feel helpless against the tide of injustice and cruelty. But we must recognize what hangs in the balance.