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 ...

Of nearly 250 million children engaged in child labor around the world, the vast majority- 70 percent, or some 170 million-are working in agriculture. Child agricultural workers frequently work ...

Children around the globe rely on UNICEF programs to survive, grow and thrive — programs that lift societies and make the ...

African countries are home to most of the world's 160 million working children. The International Labor Organization estimates ... in Ivory Coast and Ghana. Around two-thirds of the cocoa produced ...

In 2023, around 1 in 5 of such children in the world’s poorest countries were used for labor encompassing human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The low wages earned by laborers in ...

On World Social Justice Day 2025, Search for Justice, a child-focused civil society organization, reaffirms that the fight against child labour is inseparable from the broader struggle for social ...

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...

He told delegates social injustice and discrimination were behind soaring rates of child labor around the world, especially in Africa. "Today, when we are sitting here, my dear sisters and ...

In 2017, the country hosted its “National Child Labor Day” in the lakeside ... Join us on March 14 for #myfreedomday, when schools around the world will be raising awareness of modern-day ...

Child trafficking affects every country in the world, including the United States. Children make up 27% of all human trafficking victims worldwide, and two out of every three identified child victims ...

The EU’s new forced labor law is an important stride in the global fight against forced labor. By addressing forced labor proactively, businesses can both prepare to comply with the law and help ...

All three of these announcements come just days before President elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the ...