The assault on public education by the Trump administration cuts across a history of immense struggle to achieve this ...

One of her key priorities should be taking action to end hazardous child labor. My colleagues and I have researched hazardous child labor on US farms and interviewed children working exhausting 12 ...

Several provincial trade unions in China have called for fairer treatment of female jobseekers and employees to better ...

Bolivia, Chile, and Uruguay. The court rejected the request of a “married” male couple who had contracted with a woman for a child and wanted to be registered as the parents.

Thailand is working with embassies to coordinate the release and handover of people, but said it can only handle up to 300 people per day. A dramatic and highly publicised operation by the Thai ...

Teen girls and boys in the U.S. face different pressures and have different experiences at school. At the same time, majorities of teens say it’s important to them that as adults they have a job or ...

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses. By Lisa Friedman and Hiroko Tabuchi Here is what we know ...

Amnesty International stated Wednesday that Lebanon’s recent Shura Council ruling in actor Ziad Itani’s case signifies a pivotal moment in the battle against torture and impunity. Amnesty said the ...

Cash transfers make people in need less likely to resort to harmful coping strategies, such as survival sex, child labour, family separation or forced marriage. They also directly benefit the local ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the Russian leader had no desire to end the war, proposing conditions that made a truce unattainable. Europe had been banking on a United States that ...

When Sunitha Krishnan, co-founder of Prajwala, went to meet a child featured in it, she expected a scared, silent, suspicious ...

Definition: A labour market is the place where workers and employees interact with each other. In the labour market, employers compete to hire the best, and the workers compete for the best satisfying ...