Child Labour

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Film Review
Film, TV & Music
Culture
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Happy Birthday: Childhood, class and survival in modern Cairo

Film Review: 'Happy Birthday' is a tender portrait of a child maid in Cairo, exposing class divides through one girl's innocence, resilience and longing

Daniel Nour
06 February, 2026
Children working in different professions are viewed on "World Day Against Child Labour" in Deir al-Balah city, Gaza on June 11, 2024. [Getty]
Gaza War
MENA
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Gaza's children are important breadwinners for their families

Rasha Abou Jalal
29 November, 2024
Jordan
MENA
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Jordan poverty driving more children into work: rights body

William Christou
13 June, 2023
A child vendor in the Yemeni capital Sanaa [Getty]
Yemen
MENA
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Yemen's children toil at dangerous work, not school

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
09 August, 2021
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Lebanon
MENA
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Child labour surges on Lebanon’s streets: Save the Children

The New Arab Staff
14 July, 2021
Child Labour
World
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Millions of child workers in the Middle East, ILO reports

The New Arab Staff
10 June, 2021
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Syria
MENA
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More children drop out of schools in Lebanon: report

The New Arab Staff
27 March, 2021
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Pandemic
MENA
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Pandemic forces Jordanian children into labour market

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
23 January, 2021
Kameel Ahmady
LGBT
MENA
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Iran court sentences British-Iranian anthropologist to nine years

The New Arab Staff
14 December, 2020
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slavery
Perspectives

Slavery wasn't abolished, and you may be funding it

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Catherine Armstrong

22 October, 2018
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Tunisia
Society
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Tunisia seeks to curb child labour by fighting truancy

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab & agencies

18 April, 2017
Aleppo refugees
UNHCR
MENA
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Living conditions for East Aleppo's residents getting worse

Robert Cusack
13 November, 2016
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Turkey
Society
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Syrian refugee children 'are making clothes for international brands'

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

23 October, 2016
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Morocco
Society
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Morocco passes landmark law to crackdown on domestic child-labour

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

01 August, 2016
Poor kids Akkar
Syrian refugees
Analysis
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Human retrievers: Lebanon's gun-dogs replaced with children

Shireen Qabbani
03 December, 2015
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Syria
MENA
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Child labour on the rise as Syria crisis spirals

The New Arab
02 July, 2015
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UN
Analysis
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The global crisis of child labour

Sheeffah Shiraz
11 June, 2015
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settlements
Analysis
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$18 a day: Palestinian child labour in Israeli settlements

Julie Pronier
08 May, 2015
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Jordan
Analysis
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Jordanian children forced into work and marriage

Linda Maayeh
06 May, 2015