It's a powerful thing to watch a child, man or woman walk free from the rice mill, factory or brick kiln where he or she was enslaved.
Pressure is mounting on the Indian Parliament to end child labor after 150,000 Indians signed an abolition petition demanding an immediate change in the child labor laws.
The corporate sector holds prevention in their hands, touching the livelihoods and freedom of millions worldwide. I no longer see products on shelves; I see the many hands that touched them and wonder.
It's hard to believe, but true: Still today, many everyday products from around the globe are the result of child and slave labor, according to a 2011...
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- The U.S. government is looking into allegations that Dominican sugar growers use child labor and keep workers in ...
Importantly, the overfishing crisis is not just about food. It is, perhaps surprisingly, about HIV/AIDS.
A Sri Lankan woman who worked as a domestic servant for a Saudi Arabian family for 17 years without pay has received $19,000 in compensation for her l...
The leader of the human rights group quoted in a story implying the Kardashians use "slave labor" to manufacture their clothes and shoes says the stor...
Taco Bell has agreed to join the plight for farm workers, as have 9 other major corporations including McDonald's, Subway, Burger King, and Whole Foods. But guess who wont: Chipotle and Trader Joe's.
Prison isn't just about doing hard time. For many, it's about working full-time, too. These days, state governments seem ready to squeeze their captive workforces to plug budget gaps on the cheap.
Companies are not powerless bystanders. Businesses play a crucial role in ensuring slave labor doesn't infect the products we buy. But it can be an uphill battle.
The worst forms of child labor, even children that have been trafficked into slavery, are prevalent in the growing and harvesting of cacao in West Africa.
We have a tendency to want to ignore inconvenient facts, either explicitly or because we are encouraged to look quite narrowly and myopically at a problem. Which brings me to Wal-Mart.
Unless you're plugged into international news organizations, you wouldn't know that many of the WikiLeaks cables delve into African issues. The responsible mouthpieces have been silent.
A project, titled Community Resistance to Slavery and Forced Labor (CRSFL), helps vulnerable communities organize and create community-based action plans to eradicate slavery.
Some of our most basic purchases are produced by children. Though hard data is scant, it's estimated that there are 115 million children worldwide in ...
In Washington on Monday morning, June 14, Hillary Clinton unveiled the State Department's 10th annual report on modern-day slavery, which evaluates th...
More than half the world's chocolate comes from child laborers in the Ivory Coast and Ghana.
The modern day slave trade nearly equals the illicit drug and arms sale trade. Captives work in plants, factories, farms, hotels and restaurants and in prostitution and sex rings.
Next month, President Obama will make his first presidential visit to sub-Saharan Africa, traveling to Ghana -- a place where he can see first-hand the problem of child trafficking that now confronts so much of the world.
The world is not divided into a Block of Light, and a Block of Darkness; you don't have to pick a tribe and defend its every action. Say it slowly: there can be more than one bad thing in the world.
