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The UN said that child labourers may now be working longer hours or under worse conditions due to pandemic-related economic shocks and school closures.
The report titled Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward, warns 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 has been released ahead of World Day Against Child Labour on June 12.