Child labor

South Korea's new president, injured as a child laborer, cracks down on 'workplaces of death'

President Lee Jae Myung vows to reduce South Korea’s high industrial accident rate, but critics warn that his focus on punishment may not prevent future deaths in the workplace.

 South Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks at the National Assembly on November 04, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea.
A bottle of Purell hand sanitizer sits next to campaign canvass packets at a field office for Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in Graniteville, South Carolina, U.S., February 28, 2020

Fears surge in demand for hand sanitiser could fuel child labor

A handful of coffee beans

Nespresso finds child labor at three Guatemalan coffee farms

A Palestinian boy wears the headband of Hamas' armed wing as he takes part in a rally to protest against an Israeli police raid on Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, in Gaza City September 15, 2015

NGOs call for public support in ending use of Palestinian child soldiers


Classes to resume in Ashkelon, Sderot, Eshkol after week of rocket barrage

The Council informed the region that they are hoping for "happy and quiet days ahead."

Hatseva field school

U.K. 'failing' to save thousands of children from modern slavery

In Britain, 2,118 children suspected to have been trafficked were referred to the government last year, up 66 percent on 2016 and the highest annual number on record.

Discussion panel with Kevin Hyland, at Anti-Slavery Freedom Conference on 12th November 2016

Poverty could push Lebanon's Syrian refugee children to marry and work

Struggling to survive, more than three quarters of the refugees in Lebanon now live on less than $4 per day, according to the survey which was based on data collected last year.

A GENERAL view of the Bab Al-Salam refugee camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border, one of many camps housing Syrian refugees.