About Child Labour
Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially or morally harmful.
Congo cobalt: TikTokers quit vaping over mining concerns
... " There are widespread human rights violations, including Child Labour, in the context of cobalt mining - adding to significant health hazard, " says Mr Vogel, a UN Security Council expert on DR Congo who spent years working in the country...
Child labour at 'critical moment' as more pushed into work: ILO
... " Data compiled by the UN in early 2020 found that some 160 million children were being subjected to Child Labour, and that global progress to end it had stalled for the first time in 20 years...
Ghanaian children taken from home over false trafficking claims
... But the mission to remove all four children, aged between five and 11, went ahead anyway because IJM concluded the children were at risk of being used for Child Labour, an issue that, although serious, would not have merited such an aggressive raid...
How science is making chocolate taste even better
... " It has been over 20 years since the big chocolate companies pledged to eliminate Child Labour in cocoa but not much has changed, " says Ms Aerts...
Covid in Uganda: The man whose children may never return to school
... " Uganda s National Planning Authority estimated in August that 30% of all the country s learners would not be going back to school due to teenage pregnancies, early marriages, and Child Labour...
Kunsthaus Zurich: Looted art claims pose questions for Swiss museum
... Lawfully bought or forced sales? The Kunsthaus s decision to integrate the 170-piece collection has not just faced a backlash because of Bührle s weapons dealings and more recent revelations of his use of forced labour and Child Labour in his factories...
Shein: The secretive Chinese brand dressing Gen Z
... A Shein spokesperson told the BBC that it has " zero-tolerance policies for forced and Child Labour and discrimination"...
How Elon Musk wants a battery technology to revolutionize
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