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Child Labor

Jobs: Optimism Has Employers Hiring Again

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Jerry Chautin

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.

Twenty-Seven Million Slaves

Russell Simmons | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Russell Simmons

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.

Massacres, Forced Labour Torment Zimbabwe Diamond Fields

Alex Matthews | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Alex Matthews

Military control over diamond mining in Zimbabwe's eastern Marange district has resulted in a brutal mix of massacres, forced labour, beatings and rape.

Babu's Story: A Child Worker In The Shipyards Of Bangladesh

Sandy Tolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Sandy Tolan

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.

World Day Against Child Labor Highlights The Need To Do More For Africa's Children (SLIDESHOW)

International Rescue Committee | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
International Rescue Committee

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.

Use the Recession to Build Your Child's Strengths

Jenifer Fox | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jenifer Fox

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.

Fighting Child Labor, Trafficking In Liberia (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post Contributor | Emily Holland, International Rescue Committee | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 ...

Wedgwood Teacups, Child Labor, and Lead Poisoning

Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dan Agin

There is no reason to employ pregnant women and children in occupations known to be hazardous other than to exploit the poor.

USW Helps Empower Workers on Firestone Plantation in Liberia

Fred Redmond | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Fred Redmond

This is what unrestrained, immoral and disloyal multinational corporations have reduced us to: modern slavery.

Infecting Nike, Initiating Obama: An Interview With Saul Williams

Scott Thill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Scott Thill

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."

The High Cost Of Low Fashion

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

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...

Gap Plans "Sweatshop Free" Labels After Child Labor Uproad

The Observer (U.K.) | Dan McDougall | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 ...

Gap Found Using Child Labor In India Sweatshop

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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...

Child Workers Again Found Making Clothes For Gap In India

The Observer (U.K.) | Dan McDougall | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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...