Empower and protect, don’t prohibit: a better approach to child work


Bans on child labour don’t work because they ignore why children work in the first place. That is why the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour will fail. If we truly care about working children, we need to start trying to keep them safe in work rather than insisting that they end work entirely.
Our panelists, all advocates for child workers, offer us a new way forward.

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