As Valentine's Day draws near this week, we turn our attention to the problem of forced and child labor in the chocolate industry. For more than 15 years, the major chocolate makers have promised to eradicate forced labor in their industry. But after spending tens of millions of dollars on the effort, it seems [...]
Getty Images Demand for electric vehicles is fueling a rise in child labor in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo, experts said this week, urging companies to take action as the industry expands. Cobalt is a key component in batteries for electric cars, phones and laptops, and Congo provides more than [...]
Nearly every stage in the smartphone life cycle involves something ethically questionable. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via BigThink) The fact that smartphones exist at all is nothing short of a miracle. Regardless of the considerable technical accomplishments they represent, the logistics involved in building a smartphone is complicated and widely distributed. On [...]
This young girl at a potato farm is one of hundreds of typical child slaves. (Martin Jay /TRTWorld) Mohamed is only 11 years old and considers himself lucky. Unlike hundreds of Syrian refugee kids who are reduced to working on farms in the east of Lebanon in the Bekaa picking potatoes under the [...]
Bulgarian citizens were kept as slaves and forced to beg in France. Yesterday, French police detained 11 people in Toulouse. All of them are Bulgarian citizens citizens as well. The arrested organized a human trafficking network from Bulgaria for the purpose of begging in France. All detainees are members of five Roma families. They forced [...]
Frozen tuna are loaded onto a truck at Dong Gang Wholesale fish market, Dong Gang, Kaohsiung. Investigators from New Zealand are behind a global operation that has exposed shocking incidents of human trafficking, slavery and abuse at sea aboard international fishing fleets. Over the past two years, teams from Greenpeace New Zealand and [...]
In a historic and unprecedented development in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), the Government of Bahrain has established the first assistance fund for victims of human trafficking. Approved by the Executive Committee chaired by His Royal Highness Crown Prince of Bahrain and endorsed by Cabinet of Ministers on 30 April 2018, the [...]
Photo: eurokinissi / NIKOLOPOULOS ANTONIS Labour trafficking is on the rise across Europe and has overtaken sexual exploitation as the predominant form of modern-day slavery in several countries including Britain, Belgium and Portugal, a leading European human rights body said on Tuesday. But a lack of prosecutions and convictions, limited labour laws and [...]
Britain is uncovering more cases of slavery from the sex trade to car washes but it is not doing enough to jail traffickers, support victims or drive businesses to take action, activists said on the third anniversary of a landmark law. Britain has been regarded as an international leader in the fight against human trafficking [...]
In an update of the firm’s efforts to eradicate slavery in its supply chain, Adidas said it had targeted all tier two suppliers in high risk countries, including Taiwan, China, Vietnam and Indonesia, for participation in modern slavery capacity building workshops. The firm said high risk practices, including retaining documents or holding back wages, were [...]
