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National / Social Issues | SDG8.7 Dialogue Special May 14, 2019

Advocates fighting child labor come together in Tokyo ahead of Osaka G20 summit

by Ryusei Takahashi

Empowering workers, installing social protection programs and monitoring organizations to implement those programs are key points to reducing 152 million children engaged in child labor worldwide — more than half of whom work in hazardous conditions that put their health and development at risk. That ...

National / Social Issues | GENERATIONAL CHANGE Apr 10, 2019

Japanese group ACE works to end child labor and foster education across developing world

by Eric Johnston

In 1998, a march to protest child labor involving people in 107 countries made Yuka Iwatsuki realize that the issue, which she had been interested in since college, was a global movement. She also realized that there were no organizations in Japan leading the ...