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Strengthen interventions to tackle extreme poverty – Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations
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Strengthen interventions to tackle extreme poverty – Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations

The government must strengthen interventions at tackling extreme poverty to help address the prevalence of child labour in the country, the Head of Child Labour Unit of the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, Elizabeth Akanbombire, has urged. “Parents and households are in difficult times and even though we have the Free, Compulsory Universal Basic…

Rwanda: Concerns Grow Over Changing Face of Human Trafficking
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Rwanda: Concerns Grow Over Changing Face of Human Trafficking

Officials and activists have called for improved efforts to fight against human trafficking in the face of rising technology. On Tuesday, November 22, activists, academics and government officials, among other dignitaries from different parts of the continent convened in Kigali for the Africa Regional Freedom from Slavery Forum, where they discussed a number of things…

Stakeholders Advocate Elimination of Violence Against Women – Voice of Nigeria
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Stakeholders Advocate Elimination of Violence Against Women – Voice of Nigeria

Stakeholders Advocate Elimination Of Violence Against Women By Olubunmi Osoteku, Ibadan On Nov 26, 2022  Gender issue advocates have campaigned for a collaborative effort to reduce instances of violence against women and girls. They are also advocating fo women to stop engaging in violent acts, as the world celebrated the International Day of Elimination of Violence…

Role of chiefs critical in ending child labour – GAWU – Graphic Online
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Role of chiefs critical in ending child labour – GAWU – Graphic Online

Traditional authorities have been urged to design and implement community bye-laws on eradicating child labour as a contribution to efforts towards a child labour free Ghana. The Regional Coordinator, Africa, of the Global March Against Child Labour, Andrew Addoquaye Tagoe, who made the call at Torkor in the Kpando Municipality during a community stakeholder meeting,…

COMMENT: Farms, mines maintain infamy for child labour – The Chronicle
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COMMENT: Farms, mines maintain infamy for child labour – The Chronicle

The Chronicle Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter PLANS by Government to establish a National Action Plan targeted at eliminating child labour, which is reportedly mostly prevalent in the country’s agriculture and mining sectors, are commendable. Government is signatory to international Conventions 138 and 182 promulgated under the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to address minimum age…

Vital role for local government as cost of living crisis increases risk of modern slavery
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Vital role for local government as cost of living crisis increases risk of modern slavery

This article is reprinted from its original location at Hope for Justice‘s website. It was pulled from their RSS feed for your education. Visit Hope for Justice’s news page by clicking here. By Paul McAnulty, UK & Europe Programme Director at Hope for Justice Poverty is one of the major drivers that underpins exploitation, and…

The ‘money wife’, a barbaric tradition in Cross Rivers robbing underage girls of their childhoods, turning them into sex slaves
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The ‘money wife’, a barbaric tradition in Cross Rivers robbing underage girls of their childhoods, turning them into sex slaves

A barbaric tradition known as “Money wife” in a remote village in Cross river state called Becheve where girls as young as 10 years old are being sold into marriage has been uncovered. Editor’s note: here is another related story. A Twitter user by name Tunde Onakoya who runs a Non-Governmental Organisation running a program…

Special initiative aims to rope in students for reducing crime against women in Nagpur
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Special initiative aims to rope in students for reducing crime against women in Nagpur

Non-Governmental Organisations and Nagpur Police have joined hands to spread awareness about preventing human trafficking and crime against women with the involvement of students as volunteers. The Young India Unchained (YIU) initiative for the prevention of human trafficking and crimes against women and children is launched by Alliance Against Centres of Trafficking (ACT), a coalition…

Save our children: PM urged to use Asean platform to end human trafficking syndicates – The Star
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Save our children: PM urged to use Asean platform to end human trafficking syndicates – The Star

PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been urged to use the Asean platform to stop the ongoing human trafficking syndicates preying on young Malaysians in countries like Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, urged non-governmental organisations. Some 30 families with victims of human trafficking are pleading with the Prime Minister to put an end…

India Among Countries With High Incidence Of Forced Marriage Of Minors, Reveals UN Report
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India Among Countries With High Incidence Of Forced Marriage Of Minors, Reveals UN Report

As per the categorisations by the United Nations for Human Rights (UNHR), although modern slavery is not defined by law, it is used as an umbrella term to cover practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, human trafficking, sale of children, sexual slavery, and so on. Studying the prevalence of modern slavery globally,…