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Sa Pa to tourists: stop buying goods from kids

Sa Pa to tourists: stop buying goods from kids

Authorities in Sa Pa Town in the northern highlands are asking tourists not to buy goods from local children, citing child labor concerns.
Vietnam child labor rate lower than regional average

Vietnam child labor rate lower than regional average

Vietnam’s rate of child labor, 5.3 percent, is around 2 percentage points lower than the average in Asia and the Pacific, a study has found.
December 18, 2020 | 10:43 pm PT
Teenage boy escapes beatings, starvation dished out by employers

Teenage boy escapes beatings, starvation dished out by employers

A 14-year-old boy in northern Bac Ninh Province had been beaten by his employers with pestles and fish scaler for a month before he managed to break free.
November 23, 2020 | 12:59 am PT
Vietnam moves up in country rankings for providing safe, healthy childhood

Vietnam moves up in country rankings for providing safe, healthy childhood

Vietnam has climbed one place to 95th in the Global Childhood Report's ranking of 176 countries in protecting and providing for children.
May 29, 2019 | 08:06 pm PT
Discovery of London cannabis farms raises child slavery fears

Discovery of London cannabis farms raises child slavery fears

Large numbers of child slaves from Vietnam and other countries may be working on cannabis farms in London.
August 21, 2018 | 06:37 pm PT
Malawi's abandoned child brides pushed into sex work as 'only option'

Malawi's abandoned child brides pushed into sex work as 'only option'

Although child marriage is illegal, nearly half of girls in Malawi are wed before their eighteenth birthday.
November 7, 2017 | 06:10 pm PT
Vietnamese kids denied childhood in scramble to support families

Vietnamese kids denied childhood in scramble to support families

From collecting snails to climbing for betel nuts, life is tough on Vietnam's poorest children. 
September 3, 2017 | 09:00 am PT
Demand for child webcam sex in Mekong 'outstripping supply', UN says

Demand for child webcam sex in Mekong 'outstripping supply', UN says

The demand is moving from the Philippines to Thailand. 
August 9, 2017 | 11:28 pm PT
Children forced into early labor due to multiple climate change disasters in Vietnam

Children forced into early labor due to multiple climate change disasters in Vietnam

Experts are concerned that without proper protection, many children in Vietnam will give up school to help their families when disasters hit.
June 13, 2017 | 09:00 am PT
The fight against child labor

The fight against child labor

Close to 170 million children globally are caught up in the perils of child labor, says a leading NGO ahead of World Day Against Child Labour as it also calls on companies to end the practice in their supply chains.
June 11, 2016 | 10:15 pm PT
Mountainous kids take on back-breaking work with a smile

Mountainous kids take on back-breaking work with a smile

Helping their families to build houses; collecting logs that can be twice as big as them; working in the fields in near-freezing temperatures... children from mountainous provinces have to step up and take responsibility for work that is usually done by adults. 
June 1, 2016 | 12:22 am PT
 
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