by Zach Dawes Jr | Nov 2, 2021 | News
Child labor increased in 2020 despite decades of efforts to reduce unsafe, exploitative labor practices, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report published Sept. 29. Of the 233 million working children in the world in 2020, 160 million were in conditions of...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Oct 14, 2020 | News
There are 152 million children in conditions of child labor worldwide, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s annual report published Sept. 30. Of this total, 73 million are working in hazardous conditions and 25 million in situations of forced labor. These...
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 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...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 13, 2017 | News
“How much do you know about your favorite cotton T-shirt’s journey to your closet?” This question opened the Department of Labor’s annual “Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor” report released last week, emphasizing the...
