Reporting progress made to tackle child labour in its cocoa supply chain, Nestlé said it aims at eradicating the practice but added ‘going to 100% requires huge efforts’. In 2012, Nestlé partnered ...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) has estimated that 218 million children between the ages of five and seventeen work in developing countries. Of these, 122.3 million children work in the ...

Neha Shah, President & Co-Founder, GEP, a leading provider of procurement and supply chain solutions to Fortune 500 companies. For most global companies, underaged labor — the exploitation of children ...

SOMETIME AROUND the middle of the 19th century, Maria Sutton Clemments worked as a slave on an Arkansas cotton plantation. Years later she remembered one typically vicious overseer. If her fellow ...

Before the advent of child labor laws, it was not uncommon for young children to work 10 hours or longer each day in dangerous or unclean conditions. Child labor laws are designed to protect the ...

COIMBATORE: Setting off the alarm bells, the members of the child welfare committee have found the number of child labourers, particularly among migrant familie ...

Almost every private employer is subject to the child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. However, family businesses are entitled to exemption from several of the provisions, ...

Hyderabad: Telangana has partnered with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in a global initiative to eliminate child labour and promote fair and responsible work practices across supply ...

Without coordination and integrated management, planned cities cannot be built, said CCC Mayor Dr Shahadat Hossain ...

Proceedings have been initiated by the National Human Rights Commission in a child labour case from Arunachal Pradesh ...

Madurai: The Tamil Nadu Federation for Pastoral People's Sangam (TFPPS) organised an awareness meeting on the laws against ...