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Four boys in Moussadougou village, in the Southwest of Côte d'Ivoire

Child labour and responsible business conduct

Guidance to businesses, policy makers and other stakeholders to advance progress towards SDG Target 8.7 on eradicating child labour by 2025

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UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks at the World Day Against Child Labour High-Level Side Event

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A family coming back from the farm

Charting The Course

Embedding Children's Rights in Responsible Business Conduct

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English - Brief (PDF, 7 MB)

English - Report (PDF, 12 MB)

Children working at a mine site in Burkina Faso

Child labour rises to 160 million – first increase in two decades

The International Labour Organization and UNICEF warn 9 million additional children at risk as a result of COVID-19 pandemic

UNICEF and Year to Eliminate Child Labour

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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

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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

17 December 2018

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