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A teacher addresses students at a school in one of the floating villages of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake on June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Anton L. Delgado)
August 17, 2026, 9:00 am
In Cambodia, Iran war forcing families to choose between school for kids or survival
Developing countries reliant on imported energy are most exposed to disruptions from the war, with girls more likely to be impacted in places that prioritize sons
By AP
Cathryn J. Prince, author of 'For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman.' (Courtesy)
April 26, 2026, 6:13 am
From child laborer to union leader: Too-relevant story of 20th-century immigrant Pauline Newman
In ‘For the Love of Labor,’ ToI contributor Cathryn J. Prince follows the Lithuanian-born labor activist who blazed trails fighting sexism and classism in her new homeland, America
By Rich Tenorio
Displaced kids sort through trash at a street in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, August 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
September 7, 2024, 9:39 pm
Gaza approaches second year without schooling, with heavy cost for kids’ futures
Aid groups attempt ‘back to learning’ programs, but struggle to import school supplies as food and medicine take precedence
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A construction site in central Israel, on August 06, 2020. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)
March 21, 2021, 1:13 pm
Teen construction worker, 15, seriously hurt on site; ministry opens probe
Boy hit by falling object in central city of Tira; officials, police to probe apparent employment of young laborer at site
By ToI Staff
Deng Guilian, the wife of detained Chinese labor activist Hua Haifeng, speaks during an interview in Ganzhou in southeastern China's Jiangxi Province, Tuesday, June 6, 2017. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
June 6, 2017, 10:47 pm
China: Won’t release men who probed Ivanka Trump supplier
Instead of heading State Department call to free the 3 activists, Beijing enforces ‘a cone of silence’ around them, lawyer says
By Erika Kinetz
Israel's border with Egypt. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
October 26, 2016, 1:16 pm
It’s 3 p.m., do you know where your poor, uneducated teens are?
The death of a 15-year-old working on the border fence raises tough questions, like why a kid was out there and what it means for Israeli society
By Joshua Davidovich
Palestinian Karam al-Zaaneen, 13, stands on the back of a donkey-pulled cart after collecting plastic for recycling at a garbage dump in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on May 18, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
June 11, 2016, 9:47 am
Wars and poverty force Gaza children to work
As child labor drops globally, the Palestinian enclave is seeing an opposite trend, with rates doubling in the past 5 years
By AFP and ToI Staff
Young children sell bread snacks on Gaza beach on June 13, 2015 in Gaza City, Gaza (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)
April 1, 2016, 3:59 am
Gaza child labor doubled in the last 5 years, Palestinians say
Almost 10,000 kids aged 10 to 17 said to work in the Strip in places such as garages and construction sites
By JTA
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