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

This year, the annual global observance will be observed on Thursday, June 12, 2025, marked under the theme, Progress is clear, but there's more to do: let’s speed up efforts.

Looking at other child labour statistics, we found that the majority (90%) of working children were Africans; above 60% were ...

Prevalence of child labour. Since 2000, for nearly two decades, the world had been making steady progress in reducing child labour. But over the past few years, conflicts, crises and the COVID-19 ...

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

Today is World Day Against Child Labor. Shockingly, the International Labor Organization estimates that worldwide 160 million children are involved with child labor - and that number is expected to ...

Some examples: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, which oversees $1.8 trillion and professes a commitment to ESG, including screening out businesses that use child labor, and U.S. state pension funds.

Mr. Emmanuel Owusu Adjei, the Dormaa West District Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has cautioned cocoa farmers against using their children for ...

The Child Labor cause was at low ebb but not Mrs. Kelley’s dauntless zeal. Only a Constitutional Amendment, she now realized, would do the trick and this she set out to get.

Collective efforts of three-tier governments as well as other bodies concerned were underlined to end child labour, one of ...

Fernando Morales-de la Cruz was plying his trade: shaming the wealthy for investments in companies he claims benefit from child labor. Wearing a hoodie and baggy jeans, the 63-year-old Guatemalan ...