Boys are typically trafficked into agricultural labor, while girls are used for domestic or market work. In West Africa, children most vulnerable to trafficking into child labor come from rural ...

By Ayesha ShabirSocial mobilization plays a pivotal role in addressing societal issues, particularly those related to human ...

West Africa is facing its worst food crisis in a decade ... We are also working tirelessly to keep children protected from the harms of conflict, including child trafficking, forced early marriage and ...

The International Labor Organization estimates that more than 72 million children in sub-Saharan Africa — nearly one in five — are affected by child labor. Experts estimate that millions more ...

This was as it further disclosed that child labour remains rampant, with millions of children engaged in hazardous ... Protecting Street[1]Connected Children in West Africa", said the statistics were ...

The recent National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report has revealed the extent of child labour in Nigeria. According to the research, as of 2022, over 24 million Nigerian children are working as ...

Stakeholders in the cocoa sector have called for concerted efforts to stem the disturbing reality of the use of children for exploitative labour in cocoa growing communities in the country. The ...

A CHILD rights lawyer and ... regime is too weak to deter child labour trafficking, which has become an emerging serious human rights issue in southern Africa. Zororai Nkomo told NewsDay recently ...

All three of these announcements come just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the ...