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Growing crowds of tourists and investors have fuelled a construction boom that officials valued at $6.4bn in 2017.
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101 East
Indonesia21 Jun 2019 12:20 GMT
Women working in the matchstick factory in the town of Binjai often brought their children to work, a relative said.
Special series12 Jun 2019 10:24 GMT
Child field workers in the US, Haiti's 'restaveks', and miners in Bolivia; our picks for World Day Against Child Labour.
Human Rights01 May 2019 09:48 GMT
Find out the history of May Day and what kind of protests and commemorations can be expected this year.
Opinion01 Apr 2019 15:15 GMT
We don't have exact data on how pervasive child slavery is in Ghana, but we can't accept harmful child labour as normal.
by Kuukuwa Manful
Opinion18 Mar 2019 15:13 GMT
Despite what a recent CNN documentary claims, there is no pervasive child slavery problem in Ghana's Lake Volta region.
by Betty Mensah - Samuel Okyere
101 East09 Aug 2018 08:14 GMT
A look at the slums of Yangon and how families are crippled by high-interest loans as others profit from their despair.
Zimbabwe08 Apr 2018 08:45 GMT
Rights group says cases of child labour, worker exploitation and low pay are rife in Zimbabwe's tobacco farms.
Human Rights17 Mar 2018 13:24 GMT
A registry for workers and their contracts will be created using blockchain's validation.
Education25 Feb 2018 07:45 GMT
Two NGO workers explain why, despite free tuition, some Ghanaian children still struggle to get an education.
Human Rights22 Aug 2016 09:39 GMT
More than 575,000 Iraqi children are estimated to be at work instead of school, double the number from 1990.
In the Field20 Aug 2016 13:23 GMT
We travel to Mexico to find out why so many Mexican children drop out of school to join the country's workforce.
Human Rights11 Aug 2016 10:04 GMT
Sixty percent of countries at high risk of using slaves, with 46 million people worldwide engaged in forced labour
India27 Jul 2016 11:55 GMT
Measure to allow children to work in family businesses while shortening the list of banned jobs for children.
Inside Story12 Jun 2016 21:11 GMT
This year's World Day Against Child Labour is focusing on children working in supply chains.
AJ IMPACT19 Jan 2016 16:05 GMT
Western firms turn blind eye as child miners toil in dangerous conditions for precious "battery" mineral, Amnesty says.
by Gordon Brown