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Twelve-year-old boy in the capital Dhaka sorts through hazardous plastic waste without any protection, exposing himself to infections and diseases like COVID-19.

COVID-19 and child labour

A time of crisis, a time to act

12-year-old Miajul sorts through hazardous plastic waste in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to support his family during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF

Child labour down by 94 million since 2000, a gain now under threat

26-year-old Jamal, pictured with his 30-month-old daughter, Jui, works at a garment factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh.

New UNICEF, NBIM guidance to help businesses prioritize child rights in global supply chains

As the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic threatens livelihoods across the globe, newly released guidance supports companies to improve their impact on children in the garment and footwear supply chain

A ten-year-old boy subjected to child labour in Bangladesh shows his hands, dirty from work, in 2018.

Child labour

Nearly 1 in 10 children are subjected to child labour worldwide, with some forced into hazardous work through trafficking

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom on location in Bangladesh filming for "Tales by light" seen with a 14 year old mother with her one year old child

Orlando Bloom meets children working in Bangladesh slums in powerful installment of photography series

‘Tales by Light’ Season 3 will stream on Netflix from 21 December

Dulaly, 10 stands with friends in Kamalapur, Dhaka. Dulaly collects garbage around old Dhaka train station, to be recycled to earn some money to support her family. Her father is a porter and her mother a housewife.

Tales by Light

With UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom and photographer Simon Lister

Child Protection Advocay Brief: Child labour

Ahmad carries stones

Poverty drives child labour in Gaza

Going against worldwide trends, child labour has risen significantly in the past five years as economic conditions have deteriorated in the Gaza Strip

A girl picks crop in a field in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

Syrian refugee children in Lebanon at risk of child labour

Economic pressures are forcing refugee children to forgo schooling and enter the labour market