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Significant decrease in child labor bared

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has reported a significant decline in the number of child laborers in the country, dropping to 509,000 in...

‘PH on track to zero child labor’

THE government’s intensified campaign against child labor has led to a significant decline in the number of working children, driven by a strengthened “whole-of-society”...

DOLE: Child labor cases drop 38.5 percent from 2022 to 2024

The government’s intensified campaign against child labor has led to a significant decline in the number of working children, driven by a strengthened “whole-of-society”...

Working Filipino children fell below 1 million in 2024

The population of working children aged 5 to 17 fell to 861,000 in 2024, continuing a three-year annual decline, while the total number of...

Child workers still common in Pakistan

KARACHI – From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan’s megacity of Karachi. Like millions...

DSWD reaffirms commitment to end child labor

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian reaffirmed on Wednesday the agency’s commitment to end child labor in the Philippines, citing President...

Solon flags growing child labor problem

Davao City Rep. Paolo Duterte has raised concerns over Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) 2021 data showing nearly a million working children in the country. Citing...

Lawmaker wants to stamp out child labor

The chair of the House of Representatives’ labor and employment committee has appealed to the government to “exhaust more measures and enlist more allies”...

QC forms panel on child labor, exploitation

The Quezon City government has created a special unit mandated to protect minors from forced labor and exploitation by providing them and their families...

DOLE vows to focus priority programs on fighting child labor and poverty

Eliminating child labor remains a top priority for the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).  In a message, Labor Secretary Bienvenido E. Laguesma said DOLE...

90k saved from child labor—DOLE

More than 90,000 children have been removed from harmful work since the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) started profiling child laborers. Labor Secretary Silvestre...

ILO-Unicef: Child labor in PH prevalent, reaches 3.2 m

By Antoinette Capuz Child labor remains prevalent in the Philippines along with the rest of South-Eastern Asia region, according to the International Labor Organization and...

The Face of Child Labor in the Philippines

One of the assignments in my Lasallian Business Leadership class was to watch the documentary Minsan Lang Sila Bata. Seeing the hazardous scenarios the...

DoLE assisted nearly 340K minors and families

The labor department has assisted close to 340,000 minors, along with their families, in an intensified implementation of the government’s child labor prevention and...
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