G7 summit is the time for leaders to deliver on child labour commitments

Despite goals to eliminate child labour by 2025, there are tens of millions of children exploited in the G7 nations’ supply chains, and forced labour has increased in the last decade.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, third from left, and his fellow G7 leaders, pictured in Japan at the 2023 summit. All G7 governments and the European Union must co-operate to create a global list of goods produced by child labour or forced labour, writes Fernando Morales-de la Cruz.White House photograph by Adam Schultz

Opinion

BY FERNANDO MORALES-DE LA CRUZ

June 12, 2024

As the G7 leaders meet in Apulia, Italy, from June 13 to 15, I dare to ask if, and when, they will deliver on their commitments to eliminate child labour and forced labour?

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