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The International Labour Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund have released a new brief, Covid-19 and child labour: A time of crisis, a time to act, outlining the risk of a rise in child labour due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Les transferts en espèces sont de plus en plus utilisés comme moyen de lutte contre la pauvreté dans le monde. Il est prouvé qu'ils peuvent avoir un impact positif sur le bien-être des enfants, en améliorant l'accès à l'éducation, la nutrition, la santé et le bien-être matériel.

ICI’s Understanding Child Labour Risk study identified a limited set of community characteristics, which can be collected easily and at low cost, that can be used to predict a community’s child labour risk.

This article examines the impacts of two large-scale cash transfer programmes in Malawi and Zambia on child labour. Both programmes increased children’s exposure to work in agriculture that may be harmful to them, yet resulted in positive impacts on children’s school attendance and material well-being. The results demonstrate some of the complex effects of increasing incomes in agricultural areas.

This ICI review analyses current due diligence and transparency legislation through the lens of the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).