June 30th, 2022: As the world marks another World Day Against Child Labor, US leaders should commit to ending child labor at home
July 7th, 2021: Ahead of the World Day Against Child Labor this weekend, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have just released shocking new figures
April 16th, 2021: Anyone who knew Iqbal Masih, the 12-year-old boy recently assassinated in Lahore, Pakistan, by someone believed to be a feudal landlord and carpet manufacturer, was struck by his brilliance.
February 5th, 2021: An African proverb says that it takes a village to raise a child, but one can also say that it takes the whole world to protect one child
December 23rd, 2020: This year has been devastating for children. The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the education of 1.5 billion students, pushed an estimated 150 million additional children into poverty, left many without caregivers, and increased child labor, child marriage, and violence in the home
August 10th, 2020: The world reached an important milestone this week in the fight to end child labor
December 17th, 2019: Children in the Fields Campaign (CIFC) is an active member of the Child Labor Coalition, which strives to combat child labor here in the U.S. and abroad
November 22nd, 2019: New research published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine reinforces just how dangerous agricultural work is for children in the United States – and how unprepared most are for what they face in the fields
December 14th, 2018: More than half of work-related deaths among children in the US occur in agriculture, according to a new US government report published this week
September 26th, 2018: Of the products we use, wear, or consume every day, how many are made with child labor?
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