GENEVA – Ten years after launching a worldwide campaign against child labour, the International Labour Office (ILO) today issued a landmark global study showing that despite “significant progress” in ...

Child labor is a significant global problem, particularly in the developing world. Businesses big and small can be part of the solution by ensuring their supply chains are completely free of child ...

Lucknow: Almost 13.8 crore children worldwide were engaged in child labour in 2024, with at least 5.4 crore involved in hazardous work that could jeopardise their health, safety, or development. The ...

Despite decades of progress, child labor remains deeply embedded in global supply chains, with millions of children engaged in hazardous and exploitative work to produce everyday goods. The scope of ...

Across the country, some officials — overwhelmingly Republicans — are looking for ways to usher underage workers into potentially dangerous jobs like factory work, including having them take ...

Dhaka, June 12 -- While a new report shows a sharp decline in child labour in the Asia-Pacific region, the situation in Bangladesh is not the same. The broader child labor rate (detrimental forms of ...

At Torkham, the bustling Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing in North-West Pakistan, the air is filled with the constant buzz of trucks and trailers transporting goods and essential supplies across ...

With new rules on Child Labour and the controversy surrounding around allegations of a major retail store sourcing clothes from a manufacturing unit with child labour – Atanu Dey has some opinions.

Spindle boys in Georgia cotton mill. Photo by Lewis Hine. Undated. Since 2021, many states have been considering or have passed legislation to weaken child labor laws, while a smaller number have ...

There are only two types of investors: those who have unlawful child labor in their portfolios, and those who do not yet know that they have unlawful child labor in their portfolios. So we present ...

A young girl tends the spinning machine at a cotton mill in North Carolina. Children worked adult hours for pennies in mills and factories all over the United States until reforms came with the Fair ...

Child labor laws have changed in several states this year with some states tightening restrictions on child labor and other states loosening their rules. California, Indiana, Michigan, Nevada, and ...