KOTA KINABALU: Efforts to protect children in Sabah’s oil palm plantations from exploitation and to ensure they receive the education they deserve are showing promising results, yet much more remains to be done.
In conjunction with World Day Against Child Labour (June 12), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) and European Union (EU) have renewed their call for sustained and coordinated efforts to end child labour in Malaysia, particularly in Sabah, where nearly 20,000 children were working in plantations according to the last national survey in 2018.
