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Ethiopia faces an uphill task to meet the UN deadline to abolish child labor by 2025, as millions of children still work in various sectors in the rugged, landlocked country located in the Horn of ...
The forest in southwestern Ethiopia is a biodiversity hotspot of ... forest cover is burdended by an undesireable reliance on child labor that has negative effects on children's schooling.
In the sixth installment of our blog series on 'Childhood and Migration,' Senper Elias Fisseha (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia) discusses food distribution, academic performance, and susceptibility ...
Thus, understanding the nexus between climate-related shocks and child labour in agriculture is crucial for providing ... based on geographic coverage and data availability—Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, ...
Child marriage robs girls of their childhood and threatens their well-being. After 13-year-old Zemzem was abducted in southern Ethiopia, quick-thinking members of a UNICEF-supported youth group ...
The humanitarian situation across Ethiopia is harrowing and multifaceted - nearly 30 million people, including 12.5 million children - now require critical humanitarian support. A prolonged, expanding ...
Disappointingly, World Day Against Child Labour passed without much attention. Observed on June 12, the day is intended to serve as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against ...
160 million children, almost 1 in 10 worldwide, are engaged in child labor, with 80 million working in hazardous conditions in agriculture, mining, domestic labor, and other sectors. On tobacco ...
And that is how Americans have always thought of child labor: as a travesty of human rights violations “over there” – in developing economies, completely unlike our own. That myth has now ...
Tens of thousands of children in Ethiopia are suffering from the "most deadly" form of malnutrition as a prolonged drought ravages the east and south of the country, British charity Save the ...