The federal government with support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), has launched the National Child Labour Website and the Child Labour Reporting App, a digital platform designed for ...

After years of decline in child labor, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many African children back to work. Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, is teeming with young vendors. Most of them are children ...

West and Central Africa home to six of the top 10 countries with the ... The Kamsaogho Naba himself has created a local NGO to protect children in his community from child marriage, child labor, and ...

The Federal Government has been urged to fully enforce the Child Rights Acts by taking strict measures against individuals encouraging child labour across the country. The founder of the Akhin ...

COMMON WISDOM #6: Women provide the bulk of labor input in African agriculture, regularly quoted to be ... such as female empowerment or improved nutritional outcomes of children. Establishing this ...

said many laws address child labour and exploitation in Nigeria, including the international Convention on the Right of a Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) ...

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 ...

Presenter Hazel Lindsey travels from England to West Africa, to investigate the use of child labour on cocoa plantations in Ghana. She travels to the village of Akyem Ofoase, about five hours from ...

A new report from the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab and GoodWeave International highlights the risk of modern slavery ...

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 ...

Africa bears the burden of child labour globally, with 92.2 million children in child labour on the continent, with many of them trapped in hazardous work. Houngbo said, “Nigeria as the economic ...