Child labor

A sign stands outside the U.S. Department of Labor's headquarters, May 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Federal grants to fight child labor worldwide are axed in DOGE cuts

The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat child labor and slave labor around the world.
April 7
Pope Francis attends his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

In his first 2025 catechism lesson, Pope says anyone who exploits or abuses a child answers to God

January 8
Juliet Samaniya, 6, carries a bag of lithium with other children at an illegal mining site in Paseli, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Takeaways from AP’s report on child labor in Nigeria lithium mines

December 12, 2024
FILE - Smithfield Food products are on display at the Ukrops store in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, March 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Smithfield agrees to pay $2 million to resolve child labor allegations at Minnesota meat plant

November 14, 2024
FILE - Exterior photo of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Republican-backed measures to relax child labor rules and bolster food stamp eligibility standards won passage Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in the Kentucky House over impassioned objections from Democrats. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

GOP-led Kentucky House votes to relax child labor rules and toughen food stamp eligibility standards

February 23, 2024

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Labor Department puts spotlight on child labor in slaughterhouses with 3 settlements this week

January 17

Shein discloses it found 2 cases of child labor in its supply chain last year

August 23, 2024
In this April, 2020 image provided by International Rights Advocates, children from Burkina Faso are seen resting while working on a cocoa plantation in Ivory Coast in Daloa. Child welfare advocates are suing the Biden administration for failing to block imports of cocoa picked by children in West Africa bound for America’s most popular chocolate bars. (Terrence Collingsworth/International Rights Advocates via AP)

Advocates sue federal government for failing to ban imports of cocoa harvested by children

August 15, 2023

Mississippi teen’s death in poultry plant shows child labor remains a problem, feds say

July 26, 2023
FILE - A McDonald's logo hangs outside of a location in Havertown, Pa., on April 26, 2022. A McDonald's franchise that controls 12 restaurants in metro New Orleans violated child labor laws affecting more than 70 minors, the U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday, July 25, 2023. The division also found similar violations at four McDonald's locations operated in Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

McDonald’s franchise in Louisiana and Texas hired minors to work illegally, Labor Department finds

July 26, 2023

6 Sonic Drive-In restaurants in Nevada pay $71K in child labor law fines

May 31, 2023
FILE - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, center, tours the Greater Omaha Packing beef processing plant in Omaha, Neb., on Nov. 2, 2022. Vilsack sent a letter Wednesday, April 12, 2023, to the 18 largest meat and poultry producers urging them to examine the hiring practices at their companies and suppliers. The letter is part of a broader effort by the Biden administration to crack down on the use of child labor. (AP Photo/Josh Funk, File)

US urges meat companies to ensure they don’t use child labor

April 13, 2023
FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra speaks during a news conference at the HHS Humphrey Building, Oct. 18, 2022, in Washington. The Biden administration said Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, that it is creating a new task force to crack down on an explosion of migrant children in the U.S. who are being illegally exploited for labor. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

White House promises crackdown on migrant child labor

February 28, 2023

Judge orders slaughterhouse cleaners not to hire minors

December 7, 2022
FILE - A fisherman unloads his catch in the port of Suao, north eastern Taiwan, June 21, 2015. More than 100,000 people die in fishing related accidents a year, more than triple earlier estimates, and many of those fatalities were preventable, according to a report released Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

Report: Over 100,000 fishing-related deaths occur annually

November 3, 2022

Auto parts manufacturer accused of using child labor

August 25, 2022

UN investigator: Contemporary slavery extensive around globe

August 18, 2022

Mississippi Wing Stop to pay back wages for labor violations

August 16, 2022

UN meeting scrutinizes Haiti’s human rights record

January 31, 2022

UN expert: Contemporary forms of slavery exist in Sri Lanka

December 3, 2021

3 ice rinks fined nearly $43K for child labor violations

September 9, 2021

Grocery store operator fined $27K for child labor violations

July 18, 2021
The singer Angelo Kelly Performer on stage in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 21, 2021. A Bavarian court has found the folk singer guilty of violating Germany’s strict child labor laws for having his 4-year-old son perform on stage with him during an evening concert in 2019. (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)

Singer fined by German court for son’s stage performance

February 12, 2021
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2017, file photo, a child collects palm kernels from the ground at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Indonesia is the world's largest palm oil producer. The Girl Scouts of the USA said Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020, that child labor has no place in its iconic cookies and called on the two companies that bake them to act quickly to address any potential abuses linked to the palm oil in their supply chains. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara, File)

Girl Scouts call on cookie bakers to address child labor

December 31, 2020
Ima, a girl who works informally to help her parents in a palm oil plantation, poses for a portrait in Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. She was just 10 years old when she joined the throngs of children working on vast plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia, which supply 85% of the world's palm oil, used in a dizzying array of products sold by leading Western food and cosmetics brands. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies

December 30, 2020
Olivia Chaffin, 14, stands for a portrait with her Girl Scout sash in Jonesborough, Tenn., on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. Olivia is asking Girl Scouts across the country to band with her and stop selling cookies, saying, "The cookies deceive a lot of people. They think it's sustainable, but it isn't." (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Child labor in palm oil industry tied to Girl Scout cookies

December 29, 2020
FILE - In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, a bonded child laborer waits for his case to be processed after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save Childhood Movement, in New Delhi, India. With classrooms shuttered and parents losing their jobs, many children are working in farms, illegal factories, brick kilns and roadside stalls, reversing decades of progress to stop child labor. In rural India, a nationwide lockdown imposed in March, 2020, pushed millions of people into poverty, encouraging trafficking of children from villages into cities for cheap labor. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

Pandemic threatens India’s children with child labor rising

December 12, 2020
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo the sun rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court seemed concerned Tuesday, Dec. 1, about the impact of siding with food giants Nestle and Cargill and ending a lawsuit that claims they knowingly bought cocoa beans from farms in Africa that used child slave labor. The court was hearing arguments in the case by phone because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Nestle, Cargill at high court in child labor case

December 1, 2020
Miriam Nyambura coaches her son Peter Kihika, 16, who wants to become a teacher but now works during the day scavenging materials to be sold for recycling at Kenya's largest landfill Dandora, after his mother lost her job and his school was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. The United Nations says the COVID-19 pandemic risks significantly reducing gains made in the fight against child labor, putting millions of children at risk of being forced into exploitative and hazardous jobs, and school closures could exacerbate the problem. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

From ‘role models’ to sex workers: Kenya’s child labor rises

October 20, 2020
Andres Gomez works inside an amber mine near the community of Jotolchen II in Chiapas state, Mexico, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. The 11-year-old said that before the new coronavirus pandemic hit, he attended school and then would spend a couple of hours mining after class, but since the school closed in March he is spending entire days mining. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Pandemic driving children back to work, jeopardizing gains

October 15, 2020

Tennessee restaurant chain must pay $563K in back wages

October 9, 2020
Palm oil workers gather in Sumatra, Indonesia, on Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, to discuss labor abuses that plague the industry. Many interviews with The Associated Press took place secretly in homes or shops in towns or villages near plantations, sometimes late at night, to protect workers from potential retaliation. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Palm oil labor abuses linked to world’s top brands, banks

September 25, 2020

BC-The Conversation for August 27, 10am, ADVISORY

August 27, 2020

Court could end claims Nestle, Cargill abetted child labor

July 2, 2020

Child labor in Seattle: Mexican girl kept in near slavery

March 9, 2017
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