Global Stage
Kailash Satyarthi: Child labor increased during COVID
Kailash Satyarthi: COVID Boosted Child Labor | Global Stage | GZERO Media
November 26, 2022
The pandemic not only took kids out of school. It also pushed many into the workforce.
COVID raised the demand for children as the cheapest source of labor, Nobel laureate and human rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi says during a Global Stage livestream conversation. Indeed, it's the first team we're going back on meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goal No. 8 target on ending child labor.
What's more, Satyarthi explains that 160 million child laborers translate to 160 million empty seats in classrooms — and to 160 million jobs that kids will now perform instead of adults.
"It's a waste of human potential in so many ways."
More For You
In 2026 alone, AIPAC spent nearly as much as they did across the 2022 and 2024 election cycles combined
Most Popular
More than 60,000 people on Friday crossed into the small Spanish territory in a chaotic rush that overwhelmed local authorities.
- YouTube
In this episode of GZERO Europe, Carl Bildt discusses the sudden migrant crisis in the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, where tens of thousands of people attempted to cross into the territory from Morocco.
- YouTube
Britain has had seven prime ministers in just ten years. Former UK cabinet minister Rory Stewart explains what's driving the country's political instability, and why voters keep rejecting the status quo.
© 2025 GZERO Media. All Rights Reserved | A Eurasia Group media company.