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Africa: The World Pledged to End Child Labour By 2025 - So Why Are 138 Million Kids Still Working?
- The International Labour Organization and UNICEF released a report on June 11, 2025, stating 138 million children still engage in child labour worldwide.
- This persists despite the 2015 UN goal to end child labour by 2025, as poverty, weak enforcement, and funding cuts limit progress.
- Nearly two-thirds of all children engaged in labour worldwide are found in sub-Saharan Africa, where many work under dangerous conditions in sectors such as mining and agriculture.
- ILO Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo said, "we still have a long way to go," while UNICEF’s Catherine Russell called for recommitment to ensure children are in classrooms, not work.
- The report implies eliminating child labour requires integrated policies addressing household poverty, improved law enforcement, and increased education and financing.
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Report reveals that while child labour has been reduced by almost half since the beginning of the century, the targets for eradicating this practice have not yet been met
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der Standard DEHowever, the UN is failing to achieve its goal. A supply chain law could help, but it is facing the challenge in the EU.
·Vienna, Austria
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In fields or factories, still close to 138 million children were working in 2024 around the world, according to a UN report which fears that, with slow progress, the elimination of child labour will be postponed by "hundreds of years".
·Montreal, Canada
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In the world, 160 million children are victims of child labour and exploitation, according to data from the International Labour Organization and UNICEF.
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