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

Looking at other child labour statistics, we found that the majority (90%) of working children were Africans; above 60% were in the illegal age cohort of 7-14 years; and most were living in the rural ...

Velpur Mandal of Nizamabad district in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh was once notorious for child labour, but, in a dramatic way, became a rare exception of shunning child labour ...

Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammadu Dingyadi has said children are divinely created to enjoy their adolescent age ...

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

INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation (ILO) in its recent report titled “Child Labour: Global Estimates 2024, Trends and the Road Forward" estimates that at least 138 million children (78 million boys and ...

The clean energy revolution is being built on the backs of enslaved children and at the cost of strengthening China.

Find out why World Day Against Child Labour 2025 is more important than ever. Backed by UN statistics, this article explains how millions of children remain in labour due to poor funding of child ...

Despite global gains on combating child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers, highlighting deeper challenges with the continent's fast-growing economies.

The World Day against Child Labour is widely supported by these actors, along with UN agencies and individuals committed to building a world free of child labour.