International Labor Organization Holds Ten-day Intensive Development Seminar for Youth Coordinators Across Liberia

The International Labor Organization (ILO) Thursday began a ten-day intensive development seminar for youth coordinators across Liberia. Thirty young people from the Youth and Sports Ministry and the Federation of Liberian Youth are attending the seminar...

Weak Laws, Energy Wealth, Contribute To Rise In Sex Trade

Oksana, a young Moldovan woman, begins her story in a depressingly familiar way. “I was friends with one girl and she offered me a job as a house painter in Moscow. I was 18 years old and I agreed because she was my best friend, my childhood friend,”...

Central Asia: Child Labor Alive And Thriving

As World Day Against Child Labor is marked as part of continuing efforts to stamp out the practice around the globe, there are hundreds of thousands of underage children in Central Asia skipping school to work as unskilled laborers in cities or on farms.

Paid Maternity Leave Still on the Wishlist for Many U.S. Mothers

This Mother’s Day, we reflect on the critical but often overlooked issue of maternity leave. In a selection of 19 countries with comparable per capita income, the United States provides the fewest maternity leave benefits in both length of leave...