Child labour is on the surge worldwide and should be prevented and equally denounced with the strongest measures possible UN has said.
On June 12, Saurday, the world marked a day against child labour.
The number of children forced into child labour has risen to 160 million, an increase of 8.4 million children in the last 4 years.
Millions more are at risk of being drawn into it due to the impacts of Covid-19.
The UN denounces an increase in child labour worldwide and warns the world is losing ground in the fight against the phenomenon.
Pope Francis marked the World Day Against Child Labour tweeting “Children are the future of the human family: all of us are expected to promote their growth, health and tranquility.
A joint report by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) and the UN’s children’s fund, UNICEF, released in view of World Day Against Child Labour, June 12, Saturday captured a significant surge in child labour.
This new report; “Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward”, the two agencies warn that progress to end child labour has stalled for the first time in 20 years, reversing the previous downward trend that saw child labour fall by 94 million between 2000 and 2016.
The report warns that globally, 9 million additional children are at risk of being pushed into child labour by the end of 2022 as a result of the pandemic.
A simulation model shows that this number could rise to 46 million if they don’t have access to critical social protection coverage.
The ILO-UNICEF report notes that even in regions where there has been some headway since 2016, such as in Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean, Covid-19 is endangering that progress.
However, a similar progress has eluded sub-Saharan Africa, where population growth, recurrent crises, extreme poverty, and inadequate social protection measures have led to an additional 16.6 million children in child labour over the past four years.
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