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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mortaza, 8 years old, looks out of a classroom window after he attended a school lesson with other boys who split their time ...

For teens, a holiday or weekend job is a good way to earn pocket money and learn a new range of skills. But given the historical and ongoing exploitation of child labour across the globe, strict laws ...

Over 1.6 million children are engaged in child labour in Pakistan's Sindh province, a senior official said on Sunday, citing a recent survey. Child labour remains a major menace in the country despite ...

Bangladesh has witnessed a worrying surge in child labour over the past six years, with nearly 1.2 million additional children entering the workforce since 2019, according to the latest Multiple ...

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There are approximately 2.4 billion minors around the world who are aged below 18 years. Nearly 138 million of these children – about one in 17 – are engaged in child labour, including 54 million in ...

Despite progress in some parts of the world, child labour remains a stark reality for millions of children globally. According to the joint International Labour Organization (ILO) and Unicef report ...

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 ...

To say that child labor is pervasive in India’s agricultural industries is to undersell the issue. In January, the New York investigative nonprofit Transparentem connected some of the world’s largest ...

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