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Child slaves are often the unseen hands holding up the economy of the nation, hidden in their places of bondage from the sight of the people buying the work of their labor.
Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 10.26.2009 | World
To find a bank still readily giving loans during the financial crisis, you need only look as far as a Delhi train station.
Robyn Griggs Lawrence | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
Is there pain and strife sewn into one of your rugs? With GoodWeave, a new social-responsibility certification, you'll know the moral fabric of your rug down to every single fiber.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business
Employers who think they can avoid payroll tax and employee benefits by mischaracterizing independent contractors may be in for a surprise. The IRS, Labor Department, and even local state governments may disagree and the consequences can be severe.
Russell Simmons | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
An estimated 27 million human beings worldwide today are living lives of exploitation. They are objects of ownership, forgotten as children in need of love, nurturing and protection.
Alex Matthews | Posted 07.30.2009 | World
Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe's eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.
Sandy Tolan | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
For many of the children here, the idea that they shouldn't work is an entirely foreign concept. Despite laws in Bangladesh restricting child labor, the reality is starkly different.
International Rescue Committee | Posted 07.13.2009 | World
African nations are witnessing a different kind of labor crisis -- the use of young children and teenagers as cheap workers in exploitative jobs and industries.
Jenifer Fox | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living
You can help your child put their strengths to financial use. Read here for some places you can help advertise your child's goods and services.
Huffington Post Contributor | Emily Holland, International Rescue Committee | Posted 04.05.2009 | World
Colonel Richard Gonkarnue has one of the toughest jobs in Nimba County, Liberia: to combat child labor and trafficking at one of several checkpoints ...
Dan Agin | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business
There is no reason to employ pregnant women and children in occupations known to be hazardous other than to exploit the poor.
Fred Redmond | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business
This is what unrestrained, immoral and disloyal multinational corporations have reduced us to: modern slavery.
Scott Thill | Posted 09.28.2008 | Entertainment
Williams:"At the end of the day, I think its a dangerous decision for Nike to popularize a song like "List of Demands." My belief in the power of music tells me that it could possibly work against them."
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 09.23.2008 | Style
It was a black halter dress bedecked with very '50s red cherries and matching piping. Flattering in that fit-and-flare way that has me wishing I wa...
The Observer (U.K.) | Dan McDougall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
In what would be the biggest commitment to ending child labour ever undertaken by a major retailer, Gap Inc is drawing up plans to label its products ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
A British newspaper reported Sunday that it found children as young as 10 making clothes in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India, that the Gap Inc. fashion...
The Observer (U.K.) | Dan McDougall | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destine...
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Rani Hong | Posted 10.29.2009 | Impact