Child Labor

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Millions of children are not in school today because they are forced to work. Children as young as 5 years old are part of the global workforce. In factories and in fields, children work up to 15 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Solidarity Center partners with unions around the world that are championing and negotiating economic benefits in the workplace which often enable adult workers to support their families without sending their children to work. Through collective bargaining with employers, unions also can bargain for worker access to schools or daycare facilities.

The Solidarity Center also joins with advocacy partners like the Child Labor Coalition and Global March Against Child Labor to champion legal and regulatory means to end child labor and with human rights organizations to address the structural conditions that lead to child labor. For instance, together with coalition partners in the Cotton Campaign, the Solidarity Center worked for an end to child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton fields where government-run cotton harvests have forced citizens of all ages to toil each fall.

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A Growing Problem: Child Labor in Agriculture (ILO-CLC)

Date: Friday, June 11, 2021 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m., EDT Place: Virtual. Registration is required. The Solidarity Center Asia Regional Program Director and Global March Against Child Labor Chairperson, Timothy Ryan, will provide welcoming remarks for this International...

A Union Solution to Child Labor in Ghana Cocoa: New Video

A recent study by NORC at the University of Chicago found that child labor in Ghana and Ivory Coast cocoa production increased 14 percent in less than a decade, demonstrating the urgent need for more effective and inclusive interventions, says the General Agricultural...
A Growing Problem: Child Labor in Agriculture (ILO-CLC)

A Growing Problem: Child Labor in Agriculture (ILO-CLC)

Date: Friday, June 11, 2021 Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m., EDT Place: Virtual. Registration is required. The Solidarity Center Asia Regional Program Director and Global March Against Child Labor Chairperson, Timothy Ryan, will provide welcoming remarks for this International...

A Union Solution to Child Labor in Ghana Cocoa: New Video

A Union Solution to Child Labor in Ghana Cocoa: New Video

A recent study by NORC at the University of Chicago found that child labor in Ghana and Ivory Coast cocoa production increased 14 percent in less than a decade, demonstrating the urgent need for more effective and inclusive interventions, says the General Agricultural...

2022 Annual Report

2022 Annual Report

In 2022, the Solidarity Center marked a quarter century of supporting embattled workers, advocating and litigating for change, and celebrating worker rights advances in troubled times. As crackdowns on fundamental civil rights intensify around the world, workers and...

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