Jo Becker

Jo Becker is the children’s rights advocacy director for Human Rights Watch, and author of I Must Work to Eat: Covid-19, Poverty, and Child Labor in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda.

Twitter : @jobeckerhrw

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23 August 2021

Labour

Here’s how we can reverse child labour caused by Covid-19 poverty

Jo Becker: “The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures affecting 1.4 billion children, has pushed countless [...]Read the full article

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