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Child labour

June 2024

  • An Indian woman squats down beside a big pile of clay and a mould, with stacks of finished bricks behind her

    Too ill to work, too poor to get better: how debt traps families working at India’s kilns

    Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcare

May 2024

  • A woman breaking sandstone in Rajasthan, India. Photograph: Romita Saluja

    The Audio Long Read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet - podcast

    Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away. By Romita Saluja

April 2024

  • Series of trucks driving along a winding road at an open-pit copper mine

    UN-led panel aims to tackle abuses linked to mining for ‘critical minerals’

    Panel of nearly 100 countries to draw up guidelines for industries that mine raw materials used in low-carbon technology

March 2024

  • a child dragging a basket of stones at a construction site in India

    The long read
    How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet

    The long read: Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away

February 2024

  • The exterior of a one-story white building, seen from across a green lawn surrounded by a chain-link fence.

    Immigrant child laborers are being killed in US factories. Companies are walking away with fines

    Sawmills and slaughterhouses collect citations amid landscape of ‘underfunded and under-resourced’ regulators

January 2024

  • Minerals: Bertha Bangala, 36, stands in front of the washing station where the men she employs have been cleaning the mineral sand they dug in the mining pit she owns. Bangala is one of the "mères bosses" that have started their own business in Kailo following ASEFA's training. feminist activist Annie Sinanduku Mwange who is fighting for women's empowerment in the artisanal mining sector

    Rise of the ‘mother boss’: how female miners are taking control in DRC

    Half of the workers in the Congolese artisanal pits are women, and for years they have faced inequality and sexual harassment. Now a grassroots movement aims to change that

December 2023

  • A woman harvesting cocoa in Cameroon

    ‘Brands to avoid’: Mars and Cadbury among chocolate firms criticised in ethics report

    Only 17 out of 82 companies investigated were found to use suppliers that paid cocoa farmers enough to live on

November 2023

  • Michael Shuls in his green and yellow American football kit on the pitch with his team

    The future of work
    ‘It should never have happened’: death of boy, 16, at sawmill highlights rise of child labour in US

    Michael Schuls died after getting trapped in dangerous machinery at a mill in Wisconsin. But across the US conservative groups are pushing to loosen laws that protect children in the workplace

October 2023

  • Workers at a Tyson Foods factory in Springdale, Arkansas, where a protest took place earlier this week.

    Republicans continue effort to erode US child labor rules despite teen deaths

    Violations have soared but legislative efforts to strengthen protection for young workers have received little support

September 2023

  • ‘I’m embarrassed to be writing an anti-child labor article in the year 2023, as if this is some Charles Dickens novel leaking gruel and cruel men.’

    A meat processer killed a 16-year-old. Yet US lawmakers want more child labor

    Akin Olla
    Adult workers are demanding a fairer slice of corporate profits – so child labor is a way to increase and undercut the labor pool
  • A statue of Themis, the Greek God of Justice.

    Flyer distributor charged with 2,400 breaches of Victoria’s child labour laws

    Ive Distribution allegedly hired more 400 children aged under 15 between July and September 2022
  • A dozen labourers, many appearing to be young, hoe a field

    The future of work
    ‘It’s slavery for modern times’: how children of 12 toil in Colorado’s fields

    Some Republican-led states are pushing to relax child labour laws but even in the farms of San Luis valley, where most are Hispanic/Latino, youngsters can work an unlimited number of hours

August 2023

  • A fat middle-aged man looks out from behind bars

    Opinion
    How many more poor child workers must die in Pakistan before change happens?

    Zofeen T Ebrahim
    Graphic videos of the last hours of 10-year-old Fatima Furiro have highlighted once again the abuse faced by child workers

July 2023

  • woman sitting at a bar

    ‘I can’t believe we’re having this conversation’: the states pushing for 14-year-olds to serve alcohol

    As Republican-led states roll back the alcohol service age so teens can serve hard drinks, they also put them in danger

May 2023

  • Kim Reynolds in Des Moines, Iowa, in March 2022. The governor said the legislation provided ‘tailored, common sense labor provisions that allow young adults to develop their skills in the workforce’.

    Republican Iowa governor rolls back state’s child labor law protections

  • Images released by the US labor department show children working illegally for PSSI.

    ‘They were little’: photos show children illegally working in US slaughterhouse

  • FILE PHOTO: A McDonald's restaurant sign is seen in San Diego, California March 31, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

    US investigation uncovers two 10-year-olds working at Kentucky McDonald’s

  • A federal bill would allow some teens to work in certain jobs in the logging industry. Children who work more than 20 hours a week are less likely to go to college.

    ‘Dumb and dangerous’: US sees surge in efforts to weaken child labor regulations

April 2023

  • The Goldenrod, a restaurant and candy shop in York Beach, Maine, has a sign posted stating that they hire teens ages 14 and older.

    Iowa state senate votes to allow children to work longer hours and serve alcohol

  • Preparing strawberry jam

    Cafe that hires 11-year-olds sparks criticism amid push for minimum age for Australian workers

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