EXCLUSIVE Korean auto giant Hyundai investigating child labour in its U.S. supply chain
JOSEPH WHITE and JOSHUA SCHNEYER HYUNDAI Motor Co, Korea’s top automaker, is investigating child labour violations in its U.S. supply
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In the year to end child labour, COVID wreaks havoc
EMELINE WUILBERCQ FOR Ivorian police commissioner Luc Zaka, 2021 was an especially good year. He and his team rescued more
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Ivorian cocoa farmers are beating a system to reduce child labour: here’s how
The evidence of child labour on cocoa farms in West Africa became public knowledge in the late 1990s. This followed press reports
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The children who run away to work: Ethiopia’s hidden weavers
EMELINE WUILBERCQ and YARED TSEGAYE FIVE barefoot young boys were walking to town to look for work when they were
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OPINION: We must understand the context of cocoa farming to stop child labour in West Africa
MICHAEL EHIS ODIJIE IT is now two decades since reports of child slavery and child labour in cocoa cultivation in
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Child labour rises globally for the first time in decades
EMELINE WUILBERCQ CHILD labour has risen for the first time in 20 years, the United Nations has said, with one
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Governments urged to boost cash grants to end pandemic-fuelled child labour
KIM HARRISBERG FROM brick kilns to carpet factories, COVID-19 has pushed children as young as eight years old into dangerous
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Ivory Coast jails child traffickers
TWENTY-two people accused of trafficking children to work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast have received prison sentences of up
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Police rescue 68 children working on cocoa farms
ANGE ABOA POLICE in Ivory Coast have rescued 68 children working on cocoa farms, most of whom were trafficked from
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Better school quality encourages parents in Ghana to invest more in children
PRIMARY school enrolment is now almost complete in developing countries and child labour is illegal in almost all countries. But
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