This week s 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour aims to bolster action to end the practice by 2025, but fighting poverty and changing attitudes .
For Ivorian police commissioner Luc Zaka, this year was an especially good one. He and his team rescued more than 1,750 children from harsh work on the country’s cocoa plantations, and helped put several traffickers behind bars.
“We had to do everything possible to ensure our cocoa is quality cocoa that is not produced by children,” said Zaka, who heads a specialist unit fighting child labor in Ivory Coast the world’s biggest cocoa supplier.
Named International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, this year was meant to boost such efforts to stamp out the practice.
However, despite some success stories
Named International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, 2021 was meant to boost efforts to stamp out the practice. But despite some success stories, global .
One in eight of the world's children live in conflict zones where they are at risk of becoming child soldiers, a charity has warned, saying boosting school access is vital in fighting forced recruitment.