Plagued by child labour and other harmful industrial practices, countries in Africa have a duty to regulate business and hold ...

Despite global gains on combatting child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers, highlighting deeper challenges with the continent's fast-growing economies. There ...

The African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has called on African governments to strengthen legislative frameworks, improve enforcement mechanisms ...

Journalists, filmmakers, photographers, media professionals and students from Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi and Egypt can enter a contest. The International Labor ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world ...

In the “Are you kidding me?” department: Do you live in Albany, Corvallis, Eugene or Medford? If you do, you should be furious that our congressional delegation has approved the building of a ...

JOHANNESBURG — Children forced to work in appalling conditions, allegedly from as young as 4 years old, are putting the Biden administration’s green energy plans at controversial risk, particularly ...

Activists are again accusing Cargill and other major food companies of buying cocoa from West African farms that force children to work in unsafe conditions. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Superior ...

NASARAWA, Nigeria — Growing demand for the lithium used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage has created a new frontier for mining in Nigeria. But it’s led to exploitation of children ...

Mars, the chocolate giant that makes M&Ms and Snickers, uses cocoa that is harvested by children as young as five years old in Ghana, according to a bombshell report. An unidentified whistleblower ...