Excerpt: “In 2015, the world made a promise to end child labour by 2025 in Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That timeline has now come to an end. But child labour has not. Today, nearly 138 million children remain in child labour worldwide. While the elimination of child labour remains an unfinished task, there is some welcome news. After a concerning rise in child labour captured by the global estimates for 2020, a feared further deterioration in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has not materialized, and the world has succeeded in returning to a path of progress. Today, there are more than 20 million fewer children in child labour than in 2020. And there are over 100 million fewer children in child labour today than in 2000, even as the child population increased by 230 million over the same period. Yet, a closer look at the current situation and trends over time points to a number of particular concerns. Hazardous work continues to constitute a substantial share of child labour, even among children below the legal working age. The last four years saw an encouraging drop in child labour among the youngest children. But this has not undone past setbacks, and the overall number of those aged 5 to 11 years in child labour remains higher than in 2012.” (footnote omitted)
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