Their work feeds the stock of Chinese businesses, who dominate Nigeria’s laxly regulated extractive industry and are often blamed for illegal mining and exploitative labour. A business for the ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was ...

Francis has frequently decried child labor, especially during his foreign trips. During his 2023 visit to Congo, he denounced how foreign powers and mining interests used children to extract Congo’s ...

Tomori also said social safety programs such as school feeding initiatives are being revamped to keep children in school and combat child labor. He also cited a program to add mining marshals ...

In Rajasthan's mines, children like Nikki are working to carve out a future they never chose. Day after day, they endure grueling hours for a meager wage, all while risking fatal diseases.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and its Global Accelerator Lab (GALAB) Project have organised a review meeting to incorporate child and forced labour indicators into the LEAP Management ...