Nearly 138 million minors were engaged in child labour worldwide in 2024, according to a new report released on Wednesday by UNICEF and the International Labour Organization (ILO). The figure includes ...
More than 100 million children around the world wake up and, instead of heading to school, they go to work, often on farms or in mines. A new report shows progress has been made in reducing child ...
More than one year after Kano State enacted the Child Protection Law, vulnerable children in many suburbs of the state are still being exploited on all fronts. From farm owners using them for hard ...
Millions of East African children remain in hazardous labour, with numbers set to exceed ...
Child labor remains a global scourge. Although there has been significant progress in reducing it since 2000, events of recent years such as the COVID-19 pandemic and various conflicts around the ...
Eastern and Southern Africa face hazardous child labour, underscoring the urgent need for stronger protections.
An estimated 417 million children in low- and middle-income countries are living in extreme poverty. Millions of children in high-income countries are also suffering. And more children are at risk of ...