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Parents urged to save children from exploitation

Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 09:10 PM

The society must invest in children and make sure they are protected from harm and abuse as they are the future of the nation, a labor official said. Read more »

Official: Nearly 900K children working in PH in 2020

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 10 07:08 PM

There were around 872,000 working children in the country at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, majority of whom are engaged in hazardous work, an official said. Read more »

World's children bearing brunt of pandemic: Vatican

Philip Pullella, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 23 01:43 PM

The studies were produced by the Vatican's development office and the Pontifical Academy for Life. Read more »

Gov’t urged: Invest in education, as child labor cases rise for first time in decades

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 12 04:17 PM

For ILO Philippines director Khalid Hassan, the rise in the number of child laborers means “systems are not working.” Read more »

Child labor swells for first time in two decades: UN

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 10 09:38 AM

In a joint report, the International Labor Organization and the UN children's agency UNICEF said the number in child labor stood at 160 million at the start of 2020 -- an increase of 8.4 million in four years. Read more »

COVID-19 pushes Congo's children out of school, into domestic work

Jordan Mayenikini, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at May 27 09:34 AM

School closures and the economic fallout from the pandemic have left many minors across Congo and the world with no choice but to work to survive - from street vending to driving moto-taxis or selling sex, according to campaigners and officials. Read more »

Minimum age para sa domestic workers itaas sa 18: child rights group

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 04 08:01 PM

Itinutulak na itaas sa 18 anyos ang minimum age na maaaring payagang maging domestic worker o kasambahay ang isang tao. Read more »

DOLE nagbabala: Pagkuha ng menor de edad na kasambahay ilegal

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 03 07:12 PM

Bawal sa ilalim ng Kasambahay Law ang pag-hire ng mga menor de edad o mga 18 anyos pababa.  Read more »

Futures in peril: Takeaways from rise of child labor in pandemic

Richard Pérez-Peña, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 28 07:12 AM

The coronavirus pandemic has forced millions of the world’s poorest children to halt their educations and go to work to help support their families, as schools have closed and parents’ incomes have fallen or vanished.   Read more »

UN warns coronavirus may push millions of children into underage labor

Matthew Lavietes, Reuters
Posted at Jun 12 11:08 AM

The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to combat the practice and potentially marking the first rise in child labor since 2000, the United Nations warned on Friday. Read more »

US tech giants sued over cobalt mine child labor deaths

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 17 08:28 PM

Five US tech giants including Apple, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet have been named in a lawsuit over the death of child laborers in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more »

Tesla, Apple among firms accused of aiding child labor in Congo

Matthew Lavietes, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Dec 17 08:12 AM

The legal complaint on behalf of 14 families from Congo was filed on Sunday by International Rights Advocates, a US-based human rights non-profit, against Tesla Inc, Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc, Microsoft Corp and Dell Technologies Inc..   Read more »

Nasa 400 kaso ng child labor sa western Pangasinan iniimbestigahan ng DOLE

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 20 07:17 PM

Maaaring magsumbong sa DOLE o pulisya kapag nakakita ng ano mang kaso ng child labor.    Read more »

Duterte forms National Council Against Child Labor

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 27 01:46 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the institutionalization of the National Council Against Child Labor to strengthen the protection of children against exploitation. Read more »