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The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization (ILO)-sanctioned holiday first launched in 2002 [1] aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour. It was spurred by ratifications of ILO Convention No. 138 [2] on the minimum age for employment and ILO Convention No. 182 [3] on the worst forms of child ...
Support the 2023 Children Harmed in Life-Threatening or Dangerous (CHILD) Labor Act currently in Congress. Hold all employers accountable for illegal child labor and impose greater fines.
Motivating an alliance of partners to acknowledge and act against child labour. Carrying out a situational analysis to find out about child labour problems in a country. Assisting with developing and implementing national policies on child labour problems. Strengthening existing organizations and setting up institutional mechanisms.
In 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor released data saying it investigated 955 cases involving child labor violations, a 14% jump from 2022. Within those cases, the department says it found nearly ...
State-level rollbacks to child labor protections show the need for a constitutional amendment introduced 100 years ago. ... In 2022 and 2023, Arkansas, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New Jersey passed ...
Network Against Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL) is an umbrella organisation of Nigerian non-governmental organizations engaged in advocacy and campaign for children's rights, anti-human trafficking, human rights abuse and child labour [1] with some 220 member organizations in the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory.
Kielburger was reading through the Toronto Star before school one day when he came across an article about the murder of a 12-year-old Pakistani boy named Iqbal Masih, a former child factory worker in Pakistan's carpet trade who had spoken out against child labour [19] and received death threats for his activism. [20]
"In early 2023, American consumers were shocked to learn that children as young as 13 were working illegally in meatpacking plants throughout the U.S.," Reid Maki, Director of Child Labor Advocacy ...