GUIGLO, Ivory Coast — Five boys are swinging machetes on a cocoa farm, slowly advancing against a wall of brush. Their expressions are deadpan, almost vacant, and they rarely talk. The only sounds in ...

ON a rainy Monday morning, a young boy boards a bus carrying a basket of rice cakes, calling out “Puto, suman, sapin-sapin kayo diyan!” as he moves through the aisle. He appears to be no older than ...

If there is a predictable outcome from the rollback of child labor laws now taking place in red states nationwide, it’s that a flood of injured children is on the way. We are now standing on the edge ...

When the investigators came, operators of a Southern California poultry processor allegedly hid child workers in bathrooms and closets and hurried them out the back door, according to a U.S.

Nearly 138 million of these children – about one in 17 – are engaged in child labour, including 54 million in hazardous work that endangers their health and safety, according to estimates by the ...

Last week, liberals were up in arms over the fact that Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a weed farm in Camarillo, California. I don't mean that figuratively about being up in arms, by the ...

My mother grew up on a family farm, the sixth of seven children who all helped my grandparents with a seemingly endless list of chores – yet also had plenty of time to play, read, and go to school.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released the 22nd edition of its “Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor” report, which sheds light on some unsettling new statistics. According to a release ...

Child labor is back. What will we do about it? A dark shadow from America's past is re-emerging. The U.S. Labor Department's shocking revelation of a 37% increase in child labor violations isn't just ...

Turkeys 6.5 child laborers, who are used as cheap labor, were not mentioned in the labor unions May 1 declarations. It seems impossible for the children who work in the agriculture sector or as house ...