Training local case managers to address child labour in artisanal and small-scale copper-cobalt mining communities in the DRC through The Hub. They are part of a network that can respond to child labour cases and provide immediate support.

This parent worker has reason to smile. A buyer and supplier have invested in a long-term Child-Friendly Space, giving children in this rattan-harvesting community a free, safe place to stay while their parents work.

No place is too remote for The Centre's team to conduct a comprehensive child rights and human rights risk assessment. Understanding risks is a key step in the human rights due diligence processs to catalyse change.

Human rights due diligence on factory construction sites is often overlooked. But a child rights risk assessment by The Centre, conducted with a global brand’s main contractor in 2023, led to changes that positively impacted over 90 subcontractors.

A child labour prevention and remediation training for sub-contractors in the ready-made garment industry in Bangladesh. The training is a key workstream of the Child Rights Action Hub, which aims to address child labour at scale in lower tiers.

In 2024, we co-organised a session on child rights and business at the UN Responsible Business and Human Rights Forum in Bangkok. Our VP of Services, Asia, was also invited to speak on a panel.

Case managers are trained to manage child labour remediation programmes in Malaysia's palm oil sector as part of the Child Rights Action Hub.

A young worker was given a decent, age-appropriate job at a Tier 1 factory where his mother works, thanks to the Access to Decent Work for Youth (AD-Y) programme, which helps factories responsibly recruit, manage, and upskill young workers.

A newly refurbished lactation room in a factory in Bangladesh, an initiative under the WeCare Family-Friendly Workplaces programme.