Almost every country has committed to preventing child labor, but the issue persists through entrenched systemic drivers: the ...

According to data from the United Nations, there are an estimated 152 million children between 5 and 17 years old engaged in ...

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 ...

One of her key priorities should be taking action to end hazardous child labor. My colleagues and I have researched hazardous child labor on US farms and interviewed children working exhausting 12 ...

U.S. Sen. Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, filed the bipartisan “Stop Child Labor Act” to increase maximum fines and penalties and allow victims to file lawsuits. The 2023 bill never moved ...

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 ...

U.S. Sen. Todd Young, an Indiana Republican, filed the bipartisan “Stop Child Labor Act” to increase maximum fines and penalties and allow victims to file lawsuits. The 2023 bill never moved ...

Affected organizations said the move would prevent them from offering critical legal services to migrant children who crossed the U.S. southern border without their parents or legal guardians.

"The same violations are occurring nationwide, and we are doing everything we can to find violators and stop them. "Some state child labor laws differ from the federal child labor provisions of ...

Investigators allegedly again found minors working on the kill floor of a poultry plant owned by the company that was found responsible for the death of a teenager last year, according to court ...

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is reinforcing the importance of educating parents and communities to eliminate child labor in all its forms in the Ilocos ...

human trafficking and the worst forms of child labor — including child soldiers — by 2025. But controls to stop the employment of minors are rare, according to children's rights organization ...