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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, Youth and Sports, Honourable Parveen Kumar Bala highlighted that a lot of work has been done in this are...

+ 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 partnered with the James Town Community Theatre Centre (JTCT) and James Town Walking Tours in a project fund...

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 streamlined and strengthened through the creation of a separate Ministry responsible for Gender and Wo...

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 themselves as the saviours of these hapless children. Recently, at a friend’s house, I saw a 10-year-old...

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