Some children start work against their parents' wishes, and bans on child labour make it impossible to protect them on the job
Many children see vocational training, not formal schooling, as the way to escape back-breaking work
Schools are assumed to be the path to success, but what if the schools are bad, cruel, or don’t exist?
You can't stop child labour without confronting household poverty
Inequality is at the core of child labour, so why isn’t redistribution seen as the solution?
Ghanaian children are being wrenched from their parents and put into care homes to ‘save’ them from work
Many say that working children should be in school. But for many children, work is what gets them an education
This community in Ghana says NGOs are taking children away from their families in the name of anti-trafficking
When children work to survive, who can demand they stop?
Child labour can’t be abolished through force. To address it, we must attend to why children work in the first place
