Conflicts and climate disasters forcing children into work, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Years of conflict and climate disasters have pushed millions of children into work, the United Nations said on Tuesday. In 2017, there were 152 million children under the age of 18 working around the world, the International Labour Organization said in a report marking World Day Against Child Labour. The vast majority […]
SIGHT-SEEING: THE INHERENT VALUE OF WORK
NILS VON KALM looks at why our work matters…
Women must wait 217 years to earn the same as men, index says
Thomson Reuters Foundation Women will have to wait 217 years before they earn as much as men and have equal representation in the workplace, research said, revealing the widest gap in almost a decade. Women are paid and achieve just over half as much as men in the workplace, the World Economic Forum said, reporting […]
SIGHT-SEEING: WOMEN, WORK AND WORTH
AMANDA JACKSON, executive director of the Women’s Commission at the World Evangelical Alliance, writes about the importance of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, particularly with regard to women and work…