New AgeOpinion

Where no child works to survive

CHILD labour in urban Bangladesh is no longer only a poverty issue. It is a systems failure that we continue to normalise.
Reuters

Funding cuts could harm progress on child labour as world misses key target

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 ...
CNN

Guest essay: Children toiling on a trash mountain spotlight the blurred line between informal and forced labor

EDITOR’S NOTE: Lisa Kristine is a humanitarian photographer and artist. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. From a distance, it looked like a mountain rising through the brown haze of ...
The Conversation

Child labour numbers rise in homes where adults are jobless – South African study

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 ...