Africa’s children need to get back to school to avoid “lost generation”
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaThomson Reuters Foundation From free school meals to decent work for adults, African officials are working to bring child labourers who dropped out of school due to COVID-19 back into the classroom to avoid a lost generation and meet a pledge to end child labour by 2025. With school closures, income losses, deepening […]
UN goal to end child labour by 2025 deemed impractical, out of touch
Thomson Reuters Foundation A goal to stamp out child labour by 2025 is out of touch with global realities and could push many working children into worse poverty and marginalisation, a group of academics said this week as they called for more realistic targets. The United Nations launched the International Year for the Elimination of […]
World urged to act swiftly to end child labour as COVID-19 threatens gains
Thomson Reuters Foundation The world must urgently swap promises for action in the drive to end child labour as the coronavirus pandemic threatens decades of progress in combating the practice, United Nations agencies and a Nobel peace laureate said on Thursday. Several organisations and activists spoke at an event to mark the International Year for […]
How can the world boost efforts to end child labour in 2021?
Thomson Reuters Foundation The world is set to boost efforts to stop children working as 2021 marks the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, amid concerns that COVID-19 has fuelled the practice. The resolution by the 193-member United Nations General Assembly aims to increase awareness and spur action to end child labour worldwide by […]