Where children work and what they produce, the law that applies, and the organisations and programmes acting against it. Every value names its publisher and edition.
The record on child labour is spread across many publishers on different cycles. The ILO and UNICEF publish the household-survey estimates. The US Department of Labor grades governments and lists the goods made with child labour. The US State Department ranks responses to trafficking. Treaty records, official journals and national gazettes hold the law, and each programme reports on its own site.
Mtoto brings these into one place. Each publisher’s value stays in its own column, with its edition and the date it was read, and two sources that disagree are shown side by side.
Every country on four published measures, with a scorecard for each.
The global count against the 2025 target, by region, by sector and by good.
The programmes acting against child labour: who leads and funds them, where, and since when.
The bodies that measure child labour, set the rules on it and work against it.
The conventions, supply-chain laws and import bans that bear on child labour, and where each stands.
The reference reports, lists and investigations, with their publishers and dates.
Dated developments: data releases, new law, enforcement, court rulings and funding.
The country table as CSV or JSON, with the publisher and edition of every value.
The report covers April 2025 to March 2026 and was released 100 days after its statutory deadline of 30 June.
The study measures the extent of child labour in the cocoa supply chain and its root causes. It is published in French.
Launched in Abuja with ILO support, running to 2030.
UNICEF Innocenti and the University of Ghana found that in Ghana children’s self-reports gave prevalence estimates about 20 per cent higher than reports by adults on their behalf.
Amendment Act No. 21 of 2026 raises the maximum fine under the 1956 employment law from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 100,000.