Unfortunately, child labor – legally defined as work that interferes with children’s physical and mental development and school attendance - is on the rise for the first time in two decades. In fields ...

The U.S. government found child labor violations involving over 3,800 minors in 2022. At the same time, some states say there is too much regulation of child labor. Katherine Walts, director of ...

A new report from the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab and GoodWeave International highlights the risk of modern slavery ...

Of nearly 250 million children engaged in child labor around the world, the vast majority- 70 percent, or some 170 million-are working in agriculture. Child agricultural workers frequently work ...

All three of these announcements come just days before President elect Donald Trump takes office, but they follow a number of other child labor investigations in the meatpacking industry in the ...

Child labor in Egypt is governed by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Egypt is a party, and the Egyptian Child Law, which was adopted in furtherance of its obligations under the ...

A study conducted by the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab and GoodWeave International highlights the risk of modern slavery and child labour in Bangladesh's garment supply chains. The ready-made ...

When one of my child-mentees and active advocate for youth rights broached these companies’ use of child labor on foreign ... where she presents her research, and a Public Voices Fellow with ...