Child labor Quote by Kailash Satyarthi

Child labour is a global problem that needs a response from all sides. This means measures to help reduce poverty, improve education, enforce laws,…

— Guy Ryder

There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this…

— Kailash Satyarthi

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social…

— Grace Abbott

Child labour is an issue of grave importance. It must become a top priority for all governments of the world. How can the world…

— Craig Kielburger

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out…

— Juan Somavia

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

— Angela Rayner

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people…

— Thomas Sowell

Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems…

— Matt Damon

I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children…

— Kailash Satyarthi

“Development is the strategy of evasion. When you can’t give people land reform, give them hybrid cows. When you can’t send children to school,…

— Anonymous

Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous…

— Wagner Moura

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen