カテゴリー: Child labour
Exclusive: China Labor Watch says people aged 16-18 employed without required special protectionsA labour rights NGO says it has found evidence of worker exploitation in the supply chain of Labubus, the furry toys that took the world by storm last year…
Hundreds of woman in one cane producing district were agreeing to the surgery, say activists, in order to keep working long, physically punishing hoursWomen working in sugar cane fields are still being “pushed” to undergo surgery to remove their womb a…
Forced to travel far to find gruelling work making bricks, women and children fall sick but cannot access healthcareThe phrase “khat rahein hain” (“being worn down”) is how Suma Devi describes her 16 years of labouring at the brick kilns near the city …
Graphic videos of the last hours of 10-year-old Fatima Furiro have highlighted once again the abuse faced by child workersThe death of 10-year-old Fatima Furiro would have passed sadly but quietly had it not been for the two graphic videos that turned …
Just 15% of children in PNG have their birth registered. Without a birth certificate, trafficking and exploitation are far easierWhen 11-year-old Mary’s mother remarried after her husband’s death, Mary was left in the care of an aunt who exploited her….
As temperatures fall below freezing, children as young as four trying to make a living on the Afghan capital’s streets are all that stand between their family and starvationAmid the roadside restaurants and bustling crowds in one of Kabul’s busiest mar…
As a boy, the Tamil director saw movies made in the market where he worked. Now he’s India’s choice for awards gloryAs a child labourer working in the flower markets of Madurai, there was nothing more exciting for PS Vinothraj than when the film crews …
Study finds children in Ghana, Nepal and Uganda in dangerous, exploitative work, with long hours and little payGopal Magar’s father has had a drinking problem for as long as he can remember, but when Kathmandu went into lockdown last spring, it got wor…
Charities warn that seven months of the pandemic has set the country back decades on child exploitationOver 70 children were crammed into a bus, heading from Bihar to a sweatshop in the Indian city of Rajasthan, when the authorities pulled it over. Amo…
Injuries and fatalities are common among thousands of debt-bonded men and children toiling in one of the world’s harshest work environmentsAll photographs by Mashal BalochThe spectre of death hovers over the coal mines of Balochistan. Under scorching s…
Manicured children strut down the catwalks of Beijing fashion shows as thousands of events drive the huge demand for child models. Insiders warn that modelling can leave minors vulnerable to physical abuse, 12-hour-days and unrelenting pressureA buyer …