March 19
Ghana: How a Program in Ghana to Create Green Jobs Can Be a Lesson for U.S. Mayors & Across the Globe
For the past eight years, Chiso has collected waste as part of Accra's informal waste management sector. Since arriving in Ghana from Nigeria, he has earned enough to allow him and… Read more »
March 05
Africa: UN Whistle Blowers Fired for Challenging Risky Investment Policies of the Pension Fund
The UN Ethics Office, established in 2006, has promoted an organizational culture in the world body, including integrity, professionalism, respect for diversity and protection for… Read more »
January 19
Africa: Trapped and Trafficked - Fishers Tell of Forced Labor Horror
"The thing is that when you come from an African country, they know that you're basically trapped," says Noel Adabblah. Read more »
January 24
Zimbabwe: Zimbabweans Gambling for a Living Amid Escalating Hardships
Twenty years after completing high school in Zimbabwe, 38-year-old Tinago Mukono still has not found employment, and in order to survive, he has switched to betting, turning it… Read more »
November 15, 2023
Africa: Report Exposes Dark Web of Fisheries Labour Abuses
It is a terrifying life experience, cut off from the world and trapped in forced labour aboard fishing vessels, often in high seas or seas beyond the territorial waters of any… Read more »
August 04, 2023
Africa: Stubborn and Persistent - the Gender Pay Gap Refuses to Budge
By Jemimah Njuki and Jocelyn Chu Read more »
June 23, 2023
Africa: If Govts Have the Tools to Stop Fishing-Related Deaths, Why Aren't They Being Used?
Long before Hollywood highlighted the dangers of commercial fishing in The Perfect Storm, Deadliest Catch and other programming, governments around the world knew that this was one… Read more »
December 19, 2022
Africa: Universal Health Coverage - Think of Health Workers, Not Just Health Services
Health services don't deliver themselves. It is the nurse who triages in the emergency department, the midwife who delivers babies and cares for mothers, the community health… Read more »
August 24, 2022
Africa: UN Labour Report Highlights Employment Challenges for Youth
When COVID-19 prompted economic shutdowns across the globe, many analysts predicted that youth would be especially at risk. This is because young people tend to have fewer economic… Read more »
May 30, 2022
Africa: Upset With the Opulence of the Rich? but the World's Children Are Paying the Bill
The excesses committed by rich people can be deadly-and in fact they are. Be it about food, energy or overall waste, such excesses have been depleting the world's natural resources… Read more »
May 20, 2022
Africa: Youth Demand a Voice in Call-to-Action On Child Labour
Ashley has vast work experience. She has laboured by the sweat of her brow in the blistering sun on the streets of Guatemala, in the open fields on farmlands and indoors, toiling… Read more »
May 17, 2022
Africa: Child Labour - No Quick End to Children Trapped in Tobacco Production
Despite World Day Against Child Labour launched in 2002 by the International Labour Organization (ILO), little has changed over the past two decades for the millions of children… Read more »
Africa: From Child Laborer to Activist, Tara Banjara Asks World to Pledge to End the Scourge
Tara Banjara was four and a half years old when her parents put her to work on the roads, cleaning the garbage and rubble out of potholes to prepare for construction in Nemdi… Read more »
Africa: Africa Expected to Strongly Support Durban Call to Action On Child Labour
Global goals to eradicate child labour will not be achieved without a breakthrough in Africa, where most of the world's 160 million children entrapped in child labour work in rural… Read more »
Africa: Call to Invest 'Serious Resources' in Education, to Stem Tide of Child Labour
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to eliminate child labour." So said Dennis Sinyolo, Director of Education International's African Regional Office in Accra,… Read more »
May 15, 2022
Africa: Youths' Strident Voices Demand an End to Child Labour
Children's voices took centre stage at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, which kicked off in Durban, South Africa, on May 15, 2022. Their voices… Read more »
May 13, 2022
Africa: Call to Freedom for Millions of Children Trapped in Child Labour As Global Conference Comes to Africa
Children washing clothes in rivers, begging on the streets, hawking, walking for kilometres in search of water and firewood, their tiny hands competing with older, experienced… Read more »
May 15, 2022
Africa: Alarm Bells for Africa, Child Labour in Agriculture Requires Urgent Action
The Global Estimate on Child Labour estimates 160 million children are in child labour worldwide - an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years - with millions more… Read more »