International: Child Labor Surges For The First Time In 20 Years. The Pandemic May Make That Worse.
NPR – June 10, 2021
In 2020, the world marked a rise in child labor for the first time in two decades. Additionally, with the coronavirus pandemic upending economies and closing schools, the United Nations believes by 2022, the problem will get much worse. An estimated 160 million children were involved in child labor around the world at the beginning of 2020–an increase of 8.4 million in four years, according to a new report by the UN and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Also: Child Labour: Global Estimates 2020, Trends and the Road Forward: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—ipec/documents/publication/wcms_797515.pdf

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