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For Ivorian police commissioner Luc Zaka, this year was an especially good one. He and his team rescued more than 1,750 children from harsh work on the country’s cocoa plantations, and helped put several traffickers behind bars. “We had to do everything possible to ensure our cocoa is quality cocoa that is not produced by children,” said Zaka, who heads a specialist unit fighting child labor in Ivory Coast — the world’s biggest cocoa supplier. Named International Year for the Eliminati...

Named International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, 2021 was meant to boost efforts to stamp out the practice. But despite some success stories, global ...

Despite some success stories that put child traffickers behind bars, global progress was patchy and COVID-19 fueled abuses.

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Jo Becker Jo Becker is the children’s rights advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, and author of I Must Work to Eat: Covid-19, Poverty, and Child Labor in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda.

Children resort to hard labour to survive, says Covid report Friday May 28 2021 A girl collects sand in search of gold at Nakabat site in Rupa Sub Country, Moroto District. A report by Human Rights Watch shows a rise in exploitative and dangerous practices against children working to support their families PHOTO | ANTHONY WESAKA Summary The report dubbed: “I Must Work to Eat: Covid-19, Poverty, and Child labour in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda” was co-published by Human Rights Watch, Initiative...

Governments urged to boost cash grants to end pandemic-fuelled child labour.

The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and insufficient government assistance, is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor.