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ROBUST AND CONSISTENT EFFORT BY THE FIJIAN GOVERNMENT IN TACKLING CHILD LABOUR IN FIJI 09/04/2021 The Fijian Government through the Ministry of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations in collaboration with other inter-agencies such as the Ministry of Women, Social Welfare and Poverty Alleviation, Fiji Police Force and other key stakeholders have been heavily involved in the tackling of child labour cases in Fiji. The Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations, Yout...

+ This is part of a forthcoming Global Policy e-book on modern slavery. Contributions from leading experts highlighting practical and theoretical issues surrounding the persistence of slavery, human trafficking and forced labour are being serialised here over the coming months. Stephen Collins examines how using the arts to facilitate community conversations can help to break the taboo surrounding modern slavery and human trafficking in James Town, Accra. Between 2018 and 2020, I partnere...

Zimbabwe is no exception, especially at local government level. However, the Central Government continues to show political will through the enactment of various pieces of legislation chief among them the National Gender Policy (NGP) of 2013 to 2017 which was later revised and unveiled on 6 July 2017. The initial NGP recorded successes, namely the passing of a series of legislation to operationalise the policy, institutional and structural reforms that saw the national gender machinery being st...

The writer is a paediatrician at the Aga Khan University Hospital. HIRING a child for domestic help is common across Pakistan. Many prefer to employ children because they provide cheaper labour, can be controlled and more easily threatened, consume fewer resources, and are more active and require less space. The irony, however, is that although child labour is recognised as an abominable infringement of children’s rights across the world, people who hire child domestic help look upon themsel...

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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Featured pages Featured pages Featured pages Opinion Featured pages Article Costa Rica: Government informs it will be the first worldwide in meeting the goal of ending child labour in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development “Costa Rica Urges The Americas To Become The First Region In The World Free Of Child Labor”, 19 February 2021 ...On Thursday, February 11, through a virtual broadcast, Costa Rica encouraged...

Bella’s experience is not rare; it was part of an organized criminal enterprise that systematically trafficked children for forced labor, according to Hounakey, who is now an advocate for trafficking survivors. More than 20 children worked alongside her, forced to provide services, such as braiding, in a hair salon operated by her traffickers. Hounakey’s story is emblematic of the global trafficking of child laborers between countries thousands of miles apart. Yet children are trafficked ev...

Thank you, Madam President, The United Kingdom recognises São Tomé and Príncipe’s efforts to protect human rights through the ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Optional Protocol aiming at the abolition of the death penalty. The UK commends São Tomé and Príncipe for the delivery of peaceful elections in 2018 and encourages a free and transparent electoral proc...

India to ratify two major global conventions combating child labour India to ratify two major global conventions combating child labour India Is Set To Ratify Two Key Global Conventions On Combating Child Labour Which A Top UN Official Described As A “great Step Forward In Bringing All The World’s Children Under The Ambit Of The Legislations. PTI | Updated on: 13 Jun 2017, 05:11:50 PM United Nations: India is set to ratify two key global conventions on ...

More than two centuries after slavery was outlawed, 29.8 million people globally continue to be subjected to new and diverse forms of servitude, a new index ranking 162 countries shows. Haiti, India, Nepal, Mauritania and Pakistan have the highest prevalence of modern-day slavery, according to the first edition of the Global Slavery Index (compiled by Australian-based rights organization Walk Free Foundation), while in absolute numbers, China, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and Pakistan have the mos...