Child Labor
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Small children are climbing 60-foot trees to harvest your açaí
As his sisters slept in their hammocks, the boy fired up the family’s longboat, headed upstream and collected the order…
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Tesco withdraws Christmas cards from sale after forced labour claims
Tesco says it has suspended production at a factory in China alleged to have forced foreign prisoners to help make…
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BAT faces landmark legal case over Malawi families’ poverty wages
The children labouring in Malawi’s fields for British American Tobacco Human rights lawyers are preparing to bring a landmark case…
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Report Traces Goods Made with Child Labor to 76 Countries
Gold and Tobacco Among Products Most Often Tainted by Child Labor Jo Becker HRW Of the products we use, wear,…
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You don’t have to look far to find human trafficking victims
Many people think that human trafficking means kidnapping and moving victims across state or national borders. Laurie Charles The Conversation…
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Children mining cobalt in slave-like conditions as global demand for battery material surges
If you have not spared a thought for cobalt since high school science, then it might be time. It is…
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Slavery is a bigger problem now than when it was ‘abolished’ — and it’s happening here
Slavery. The word conjures images of people in leg irons. Edward Santow We think of the abolitionists who toiled centuries…
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Latest figures reveal more than 40 million people are living in slavery
Forced marriage is included for first time in worldwide statistics that show ‘money and debt’ to be at the heart…
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40 million in modern slavery and 152 million in child labour around the world
Modern slavery and child labour New data reveal that the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal Target 8.7, will not…
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Child miners aged four living a hell on Earth so YOU can drive an electric car: Awful human cost in squalid Congo cobalt mine that Michael Gove didn’t consider in his ‘clean’ energy crusade
Sky News investigated the Katanga mines and found Dorsen, 8, and Monica, 4 The pair were working in the vast…
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Australian-Made Fish Sauce To Protect Cambodian Babies From Deadly Beriberi
There’s a special ingredient that fortifies babies against a deadly deficiency. Cayla Dengate HuffPost Fish sauce is the pungent, salty…
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