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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 the region to join efforts to end the deprivation of children due to child labor. The message, issu...

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 every day in their own countries as well. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Aff...

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 process in accordance with international human rights standards for the 2021 Presidential elections. We ...

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 combating child labour which a top UN official described as a “great step forward” in bringing ...

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 most people enslaved. In India, almost 14 million people are believed to be victims of modern slavery. ...