by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 8, 2023 | Feature-, News
There were an estimated 50 million people around the world in conditions of forced labor and forced marriage in 2021, according to a report published in late May by Walk Free Foundation. Walk Free defines modern slavery as “situations of exploitation that a person...
by Scott Stearman | Mar 24, 2021 | Opinion
In the summer of 1988, I was the subject of great racial curiosity. I was in the middle of the most land locked city on earth. The capital of Xinjiang, Urumqi, holds a population of over one million people. My impression then was that none of those one million people...
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 | 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 Nell Green | Aug 30, 2017 | Opinion
A truck parks in a Wal-Mart parking lot in San Antonio in July’s blistering heat. A man desperate for water makes it inside the store asking for a drink. It’s discovered that the truck is full of people. Eight are already dead, two more die later, and...
