“Huge setbacks”: In the year to end child labour, COVID wreaks havoc
EMELINE WUILBERCQ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the coronavirus pandemic impacted the fight against child labour…
Court jails 10 for child trafficking in Ivory Coast cocoa sector
Bouna, Ivory Coast Reuters A court in Ivory Coast on Wednesday sentenced 10 people found guilty of child trafficking to 10 years in jail, part of an effort to clamp down on organised networks that smuggle children to work in cocoa plantations. Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, and the companies that buy its […]