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.

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 ...

Stakeholders at this year’s National Justice Conference have called for sustainable financing of child protection systems, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emphasising the need to eradicate child labour and ensure every child receives the right to education, Principal District ...

Child protection advocates have warned that Nigeria’s child welfare and labour enforcement architecture is under increasing pressure, as weak coordination among responsible institutions continues to ...

Lack of vocational education hinders child labour elimination in Bangladesh, experts say. Awareness campaigns and education ...

ADDIS ABABA, June 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Child labour has risen for the first time in 20 years, the United Nations said on Thursday, with one in 10 children in work worldwide and millions ...

More than 30 signatories that own shares—including the Illinois state treasurer and the New York City comptroller—sent a letter to the McDonald's board Friday calling out the Labor Department's ...

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 ...

The owners and operators of six Sonic Drive-In restaurants in northwest Nevada have paid more than $70,000 in civil penalties for allegedly violating federal child labor laws. Federal investigators in ...