Nearly 138 million of these children – about one in 17 – are engaged in child labour, including 54 million in hazardous work that endangers their health and safety, according to estimates by the ...
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Child laborers increase

THE number of child laborers in the Philippines — those performing hazardous jobs or working more hours than legally allowed ...
How a UNICEF-supported Integrated Social Services approach in Ghana is helping to protect children's right to stay in school and out of the workforce.
In 2020, the world marked a rise in child labor for the first time in two decades. Additionally, with the coronavirus pandemic upending economies and closing schools, the United Nations believes by ...
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rescued victims of child labour in India rarely receive state compensation, new data shows, as campaigners warned a government drive to boost support for slavery ...
2025: Progress is clear, but there's more to do: let’s speed up efforts! The 2025 World Day will focus on a key milestone: the release of the 2025 global estimates and trends of child labour. This ...
Tirupati: Children doing manual jobs like carrying goods, cleaning tables and selling products is a common sight in the world ...
Child protection advocates have warned that Nigeria’s child welfare and labour enforcement architecture is under increasing pressure, as weak coordination among responsible institutions continues to ...
Ghana has officially declared three cocoa-growing communities in the Ashanti and Western North Regions as the country’s first ...
Reporting progress made to tackle child labour in its cocoa supply chain, Nestlé said it aims at eradicating the practice but added ‘going to 100% requires huge efforts’. In 2012, Nestlé partnered ...