by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 17, 2019 | News
Around 152 million children ages 5-17 were involved in child labor during 2018, according to a report published in late September by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Around half of these children (73 million) were working in...
by Pam Strickland | Jun 11, 2019 | Opinion
“Child labor in the U.S.? That doesn’t happen here.” “I don’t contribute to that.” “I can’t do anything to stop it.” These are common statements I hear because child labor trafficking isn’t discussed much in the United States. Most of us think it happens in...
by Nell Green | Jun 10, 2019 | Opinion
We were in an atelier where they made mosaic tables and other articles. Young boys were fashioning bricks and putting them into wood-burning kilns stretching their arms deep into the fiery furnace. Their arms bore the scars of burns and other accidents. Other boys sat...
by Elizabeth Goatley | Jun 7, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on June 12, 2017. Goatley was an assistant professor of social work in the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University at the time of publication. It is republished today in advance of the U.N.’s World Day...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 27, 2018 | News
From cellphones to chocolate desserts and sushi to shoes, many products reaching the global marketplace are connected to forms of child labor and forced labor. More than two-thirds of the world’s children who work do so in conditions categorized as “child labor,” with...
