Child Labour

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

According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the number of children under 18 in the Gaza Strip in mid-2024 is estimated at 1,067,986.

Rasha 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