A UN report reveals that 138 million children are still engaged in child labour globally, with nearly 40% in hazardous work.

Nearly 138 million children were still working in the world’s fields and factories in 2024, the United Nations said Wednesday ...

In it, writer Benjamin Powell invokes an idea couched in the world of Charles Dickens’s dystopian literature: “Families who send their children to work in sweatshops do so because they are ...

Here and there, kids tried running away. In response, owners began surrounding their factories with barbed wire or made the children work at night when their fear of the dark might keep them from ...

Children work at night, and the auditors come in the ... The audits are paid for by the factories. And so auditors say, when they come in and they find a lot of violations, they get in trouble ...

RASCOE: Reuters and the New York Times have recently published investigations about how children as young as 13 are working full-time jobs, like in factories and at construction sites, which is ...

Massachusetts has fewer large factories and meat-packing plants ... advocates say: Migrant children are working because they need to support themselves and their families, which makes them less ...

At 12 years old, she's been working in brick factories half her life now, and she's probably the oldest of all her co-workers. Already high, the number of children put to work in Afghanistan is ...