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2025 World Day Against Child Labour:  98,252 trapped in child labour in Ghana – CHRAJ

A boy working at a quarry site , chipping rocks into gravel with a homemade hammer Credit -NBC NEWS

A boy working at a quarry site , chipping rocks into gravel with a homemade hammer Credit -NBC NEWS

MORE than 98,252 Ghanaian children are engaged in child labour, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has disclosed.

This represents 28 per cent of the 1.1 million children aged five to 17 engaged in some form of work across the country.

The Commission indicated that an estimated 500,000 of the working children were out of school.

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