Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are approximately 2.4 billion minors around the world who are aged below 18 years. Nearly 138 million of these children – ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (ILO News) - Good practices, challenges and recommendations across three key areas – child labour and education and skill, child labour monitoring systems and business and child ...

For teens, a holiday or weekend job is a good way to earn pocket money and learn a new range of skills. But given the historical and ongoing exploitation of child labour across the globe, strict laws ...

Nearly two-thirds of South Sudanese children are engaged in the worst forms of child labour, with rates reaching as high as 90 percent in the hardest-hit regions, according to a government study ...

A total of 15,439 children have benefited from two Right To Play (RTP) Ghana initiatives aimed at improving the quality of education, strengthening child protection and tackling child labour and ...

Peter lives near Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, with his mother and three younger sisters. He attended school through ninth grade, but after his father died his mother could no longer pay his ...

“Children in areas affected by conflict and disasters are among the most vulnerable. No child must be left behind,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder in his statement for World Day Against Child ...

Instances of child labor have often been buzzed about in low cost countries, but a new International Labour Organization (ILO) study on the subject found that nearly 17 million children between ages ...

A study shows that 1.5 million people remain in this situation, accounting for 4 percent of the population aged 5 to 17.