For more than 30 years prior to its ban, the fishing method muro-ami was commonly used in the Philippines. During its heyday, it was the most lucrative of fishing techniques outside of larger-scale fishing businesses, primarily because the...

China is all set to become the next economic giant who will display its extravagance in the forthcoming Beijing Olympic Games but there is a dark side of China plagued in poverty and illiteracy. For 3.5 Yuan ($0.50) thousands of Chinese children...

Each day, 14-year-old Ali Abdel-Nasser works at a brick factory on the outskirts of Cairo, loading a donkey cart with new bricks to be taken to a nearby furnace to dry. He has worked at the plant almost every day since age 10, when his...

In India, poor children start working at a very young age. Some of the children work to help their families and at the same time, some families want their children to help them to run the family business. The government of India has always followed...

Every day there is news about children being exploited in some part of the world. Articles speak of kids being abused physically, verbally and even sexually. In particular, the developing countries of the southern hemisphere have been the...

The news that the global fashion company GAP has been indirectly involved in child labour while producing children’s clothing in India is hardly surprising. Local vendors and middlemen, working for foreign consumer companies make poor...

In a busy by-lane of a Mumbai suburb a small hut like structure is cramped up with more than twenty kids working on fake handbags, which fetch anything between Rs. 50 to Rs 800 on the street. People who think they have a great bargain when they...

China may have heading towards becoming the super power or largest economy in the entire world, but its exploitation of forced or slave labor, including children and the ill treatment of workers across the nation drags it into the dark ages....

The Ministry of Labor, Government of India had appointed a Committee on child labor in 1979 to examined various dimensions of child labor in different occupations. According to the study report, the child labor was reported highest in Andhra...

Tiny hands are very important for shoe production, textiles, auto repair, agriculture and many other industries. This is because those tiny hands can easily polish and apply adhesive to places that big hands can’t reach. Those tiny hands do...