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Jun
11
2021
By The African Mirror
Child labour rises globally for the first time in decades

Child labour rises globally for the first time in decades

HUMAN RIGHTS
EMELINE WUILBERCQ CHILD labour has risen for the first time in 20 years, the United Nations has said, with one in 10 children in work worldwide and millions more at risk due to COVID-19. The number of child labourers has increased to 160 million from 152 million in 2016, with the greatest rise in Africa due to population growth, crises and poverty, said the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF). "We are losing ground in the fight against child labour, and the last year has not made that fight any easier," UNICEF's executive director Henrietta Fore…
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Jun
08
2021
By The African Mirror
ILO chief says pandemic’s impact on work is “cataclysmic”

ILO chief says pandemic’s impact on work is “cataclysmic”

BUSINESS
THE head of the International Labour Organization on Monday described the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world of work as "cataclysmic" and much worse than that of the 2008 financial crisis. Speaking at the opening of the ILO's two-week ministerial conference, director-general Guy Ryder also warned of an uneven economic recovery after the pandemic, partly fed by inequities in vaccine distribution. "The impact has been devastating, cataclysmic," he said. "Taken as a whole this represents a world of work crisis four times as severe as the one triggered by the financial crisis of 2008-2009." The United Nations agency…
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Dec
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Labor group seeks help for hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded by COVID

Labor group seeks help for hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded by COVID

COVID-19
MATTHEW LAVIETES HUNDREDS of thousands of seafarers around the world are stranded at sea due to coronavirus travel restrictions, unable to go home or get medical care, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on Tuesday, calling on nations to address their plight. Many shipping and transport workers have been at sea as long as 17 months or longer, as COVID-19-related restrictions make it almost impossible to rotate crews, the United Nations' labor agency said. The ILO adopted a resolution asking nations to take action by providing medical care to seafarers in need, waiving visa or documentation requirements and designating seafarers…
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