Countries taking part in the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour this week in South Africa, are being urged to do more to...
The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the International Labour Organization kicked off a series of activities that support a nation-wide campaign to tackle the...
Women and children are at high risk of being pushed into contemporary forms of slavery, UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Wednesday. In an alert to coincide with the International Day for the Abolition of...
Effective action and strong leadership are essential to end child labour by 2025, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Tuesday. Qu...
The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years –...
The systematic and systemic use of child labour and forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry has come to an end, although some local vestiges still remain,...
Although child labour has decreased significantly over the last decade, one-in-ten children are still caught up in harmful work, the UN’s labour agency said on Friday,...
For the first time in the ILO’s history, an International Labour Convention has been ratified by all member States. Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms...
Millions more children risk being pushed into child labour as a result of the COVID-19 crisis , which could lead to the first rise in child labour...
Did you know that some of your favorite foods may be produced with child labor? Take chocolate, for instance: 60 percent of its main ingredient, cocoa,...