Every year on June 12, World Day Against Child Labour is observed to raise global awareness about the exploitation of children and to urge collective action to eliminate it. The day focuses on drawing ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are approximately 2.4 billion minors around the world who are aged below 18 years. Nearly 138 million of these children – ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mortaza, 8 years old, looks out of a classroom window after he attended a school lesson with other boys who split their time ...
Child labor sounds as if it belongs to a long-ago era, but for 138 million children it is a daily routine. "These are children who work under the hot sun in farms, tending crops when they should be in ...
GENEVA, June 11 (Reuters) - The world has missed its target of eliminating child labour by 2025 and funding cuts threaten recent progress on reducing the numbers of children in work, a new joint ...
A young boy herding cattle in South Africa. Photo by David Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Child labour is a big concern across the world. It is particularly acute in countries in the global south ...