Nepal: Covid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child Labor

By Human Rights Watch

The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor. Many children feel they have no choice but to work to help their families survive, but a rise in child labor is not an inevitable consequence of the pandemic. The Nepali government and international donors should expand Nepal’s relatively small cash transfer program to keep children out of exploitative and dangerous child labor. (New York) – The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and insufficient government assistance, is…

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