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Bookmark or Share- Action Against Child Labour - UNICEFThe International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF latest estimates indicate that 160 million children worldwide are engaged in child labour – that is, work that they are too young to perform or that, by its nature or circumstances, is likely to harm children’s health, safety or morals. This underscores the urgent need for immediate action to eliminate child labour by 2025, a ...
- What works to eliminate child labour? | Innocenti Global ... - UNICEFChild labour has been declining in many parts of the world, but in many regions, progress has stagnated, reversed, or is in danger of reversal in the absence of robust policy responses. 1 COVID-19 has increased the risk of child labour, given economic insecurities, health shocks, school closures and service disruptions over 2020-2022.
- What is child labour? - UNICEFChildren may be driven into work for various reasons. Most often, child labour occurs when families face financial challenges or uncertainty – whether due to poverty, sudden illness of a caregiver, or job loss of a primary wage earner. The consequences are staggering. Child labour can result in extreme bodily and mental harm, and even death.
- Child Labor - Human Rights Watch160 million children, almost 1 in 10 worldwide, are engaged in child labor, with 80 million working in hazardous conditions in agriculture, mining, domestic labor, and other sectors. On tobacco ...
- Child labour rises to 160 million – first increase in two decadesChild Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward is the first-ever joint ILO-UNICEF report on child labour estimates and forms part of a broader inter-agency effort to measure and monitor progress towards target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals. Estimates are based on the extrapolation of data from 106 surveys covering ...
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