Nearly 138 million of these children – about one in 17 – are engaged in child labour, including 54 million in hazardous work that endangers their health and safety, according to estimates by the ...

A new class action lawsuit against Roblox is putting one of the world's biggest gaming platforms under renewed scrutiny over how it treats young creators. The case centers on a 13-year-old plaintiff ...

How a UNICEF-supported Integrated Social Services approach in Ghana is helping to protect children's right to stay in school and out of the workforce.

ADDIS ABABA, June 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations says child labour is on the rise for the first time in 20 years, with millions more young people at risk of becoming child ...

Reporting progress made to tackle child labour in its cocoa supply chain, Nestlé said it aims at eradicating the practice but added ‘going to 100% requires huge efforts’. In 2012, Nestlé partnered ...

ON a rainy Monday morning, a young boy boards a bus carrying a basket of rice cakes, calling out “Puto, suman, sapin-sapin kayo diyan!” as he moves through the aisle. He appears to be no older than ...

If there is a predictable outcome from the rollback of child labor laws now taking place in red states nationwide, it’s that a flood of injured children is on the way. We are now standing on the edge ...

June 12 is World Day Against Child Labor. This is the first in a series of articles exploring the state of child labor today. As a moral issue, child labor seems straightforward. No one should spend ...

My mother grew up on a family farm, the sixth of seven children who all helped my grandparents with a seemingly endless list of chores – yet also had plenty of time to play, read, and go to school.

GUIGLO, Ivory Coast — Five boys are swinging machetes on a cocoa farm, slowly advancing against a wall of brush. Their expressions are deadpan, almost vacant, and they rarely talk. The only sounds in ...

Child labor, often thought of as a problem only in other countries, is making headlines in the United States following a wave of Republican-led efforts to roll back protections in several states, most ...

The new Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) chairperson, Om Prakash Vyas, outlined his priorities a day ...