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Online library - Child modern slavery persists as a significant concern in the United Kingdom, exerting far-reaching implications on both children and the broader society. It represents a grave infringement on the fundamental human rights of children, stripping them of their…
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Online library - This research toolkit has been developed to support agencies in organising and implementing child friendly consultations with children and young people aged 5-17 years who have experience of child work, whether paid or unpaid, including chores to help their parents…
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Online library - In humanitarian situations, the risks of children being out of school and engaging in child labour are both significantly elevated, particularly for displaced, refugee, and migrant children. Hence, while education is critical for the successful prevention of and…
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Online library - The Study on the evolution of the Children and Armed Conflict mandate 1996-2021 is a comprehensive study with a holistic approach about the challenges, opportunities, and successes in delivering the United Nations CAAC mandate since 1996. This…
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News - A call has been issued by Global Solutions Forum on Child Labor 2021 for effective action and strong leadership to end child labor by 2025
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2025 targeted as deadline to end child labor
160 million children (almost one in ten) are forced into work…
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During the Global Solutions Forum on child labor on 2-3 November 2021, the world leaders discussed actions that ought to be taken to end child labor by 2025. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) pointed out that child labor not only harms a child's physical and…
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News - There was a considerable drop in the number of child labor cases in the span of 16 years, starting from 2000. However, these past four years, there has been a set-back, with an extra 8m children working, and some 6.5m more doing dangerous jobs. This regress is said to have…
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News - Child labor around the world increased for the first time in decades. The global coronavirus lockdowns have led to a loss of income for millions of families, and an increase in child labor. But even before the pandemic, the number of children forced…
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News - On the occasion of the World Day against Child Labour, Terre des Hommes underlines the importance of creating spaces for working children to participate in local to global policy debates in line with Art. 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. As a consequence…
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Online library - ILO and UNICEF have jointly published the new global estimates on child labour today showing:
An overall increase of working children to 160 million (+8.4 million: 63 million girls and 97 million boys) of which 79 million…
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News - A joint report of International Labour Organization and UN children’s agency shows that child labour has risen for the first time in the last two decades and the coronavirus crisis threatens to push millions of children into work.
The percentage of children who are forced…
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Online library - The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) published an assessment of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in the Western Balkans. This is the first regional assessment of its kind looking at both the vulnerabilities of…
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News - The Deputy Executive Director of Programmes at ECPAT International, an organization that fights commercial sexual exploitation of children, explains 5 steps to protect children from the increase of online sexual abuse and exploitation that has occured…
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News - UNHCR reported that the pandemic is threatening the lives and rights of refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls. The socio-economic impacts of the pandemic are leaving many lives in peril, with gender-based violence, forced marriages, child labour and adolescent…
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News - In 1989, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child laid the foundation for seeing children worldwide as individuals with their own rights and needs and the European Parliament adopted a resolution in November 2019 and all EU members are signatories of this Convention (…
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News - Kieran Guilbert reports for Reuters that the European Court of Human Rights ruled out that Britain should pay 90 000 euros in compensation to two Vietnamese men who were convicted of drug crimes despite signs they had been trafficked as children and forced to work on…
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Multimedia - The International Labour Organisation is dedicating the year 2021 to the elimination of child labour, as still today 152 million children around the world are affected by it. "Child labour is defined by international standards as work…
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News - School closures due to the pandemic give an opportunity for human traffickers targeting children.
One-third of found trafficking victims are children - from 2016 to 2018 the number of reported cases increased from 24,000 to 49,000.
The risk is higher in poorer countries,…
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Online library - Forward has recently published a study on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Safeguarding as around 60,000 girls are still at risk in the UK. In the last decade several new safeguarding measures have been introduced such as the…
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News - Since 2015, Greece has been a host country for thousands of refugees and migrants, coming mainly from countries in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa. Among the people who enter the country, half of them represent minor children and most are unaccompanied. The…
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News - Facebook has admitted to a House of Commons committee that plans to implement end-to-end encryption on all messaging products will have a negative impact on the exploitation of some British children…
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News - Even though there were almost a hundred million less working children reported in 2016 compared to 2000, one-in-ten children still suffer in illegal child labour. Africa is in the first place, counting around 72 million child labourers, followed by the…
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News - Exit News suggested that EU Member States and the UK should consider rehabilitating Albanian survivors of human trafficking in the country of rescue instead of sending back them to Albania, where they face many risks upon their return, like stigmatization, re-…
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News - COVID lockdown in the world has resulted in disturbing changes in child labor, exploitation, early marriages and abuse reports. As the education system had to implement an online schooling due to the pandemic, children, especially from disadvantaged families, were forced to…
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News - The problem of children being involved in drug networks in Kent county has been brought up by the filmmaker Henry Blake in his latest film.
Having an experience in working with vulnerable children, Blake had first produced a short film telling a story about the effects of…
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News - CHILD-FOCUSED non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa, published a study on traditional African childhoods and how they differ from the UNCRC-based child rights vision. The study…
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News - According to the warning of Just for Kids Law charity, county lines drug trafficking gangs have been grooming schoolchildren during the lockdown.
Based on the charities casework many children and young people have been excluded because of being…
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News - On Thursday, Ilir Meta, the President of Albania, has called for better policies against sexual violence and exploitation of children. He has called for a more comprehensive legal framework in order to stop the abuse as well.
The President said this at…
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Webinar - Terre des hommes (Tdh) mission in Kosovo in cooperation with the Center for Victim Protection and Prevention of Trafficking in Human Beings (PVPT) and the NGO Hope and Homes (H&H) will organize the first national webinar within the framework of the project “Improving…
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News - 27% of human trafficking victims are children, says Save the Children in a new article that aims to clear up myths on this sensitive issue which exists in every country in the world. According to the United Nations,…
