“We see children displaced or migrating through irregular channels due to multiple factors including conflict, poverty environmental causes but also in search of better opportunities” she Emnet Berhanu, IGAD Migrant Protection Specialist, IGAD Health and Social Division.
ILO suggests the need to invest in social protection systems, especially for vulnerable households, including universal child benefits, so families do not resort to child labour. New report shows an almost 50 per cent reduction since start of century, but world fails to reach elimination targets.
