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Rural communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are facing an “environmental catastrophe” as mining for cobalt and other minerals necessary for manufacturing batteries poisons their land and water with toxic chemicals, experts told Congress on Tuesday.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) stated that the FBI needs to be involved in locating the 85,000 migrant children that the federal government has lost track of and that the

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) stated that the issues with migrant children being exploited for child labor are due to the Biden administration waiving background check requirements

Officials in President Joe Biden’s administration have “ignored or missed” warnings from whistleblowers detailing a surge in Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) being labor trafficked into United States jobs, the New York Times reported.

Woke ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s is being sued for its “hypocritical” use of child labor, despite the company’s oft-stated commitment to social justice causes.

During an interview with NPR’s “1A” podcast on Monday, January Contreras, the Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children & Families, which oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement, defended the vetting of sponsors who migrant

Ex-NFL player Colin Kaepernick has refused to comment on charges that Ben & Jerry’s has been caught using child labor in its supply chain.

The U.N. prepared a troubling report on the insurgency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week, warning that the conflict is intensifying and putting more civilians, including children, at risk of abduction, rape, and torture.

Federal investigators have found many migrant children working in three slaughterhouses — but both the government and the New York Times are hiding President Joe Biden’s role in delivering foreign children to employers nationwide.

The Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday that a coalition of major U.S. companies, including Walmart and General Motors, is quietly lobbying the government to make certain import data confidential — a change that would make it much more difficult for journalists and human rights activists to link imported goods to abusive labor practices abroad, including forced labor in China’s Xinjiang province and child labor in Africa.

The U.S. Labor Department on Monday accused a South Korean-owned company that supplies parts to Hyundai Motor Company of violating child labor laws at its factory in Alexander City, Alabama.

Migrant children from Central America were used in low-wage manufacturing jobs for the Hyundai Motor auto factory in Alabama, according to a report by Reuters.

43-year-old Tang Mingfang was arrested in 2019 for giving documents to a human rights group that showed a Foxconn factory in China was using child labor for manufacturing Echo and Kindle devices for Amazon.com.

President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion Build Back Better (BBB) bill would allow cartels to get taxpayer funds for smuggling more foreign children and youths into U.S. schools, neighborhoods, and jobs, say GOP sources.

Pope Francis denounced widespread child labor abuses Sunday, asserting that 150 million children are exploited globally.

A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday to restart its tacit cooperation with the coyotes who help deliver foreign children and teenagers to employers and illegal-migrant parents in the United States.

Tech giant Apple has reportedly suspended new business with Taiwanese iPhone assembler Pegatron Corp. following the discovery of labor violations in a “student workers’ program.”

A joint report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) published on Friday has warned that the economic impact of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic will likely force millions of more children into forced labor. 

Experts warn that coronavirus-related school closures in West Africa during the local cocoa harvest season could cause a spike in child labor in Ivory Coast and Ghana, Reuters reported on Thursday.

A slew of high-tech companies including Apple, Google, and Tesla are being sued by a group of Congolese families whose children allegedly died or were severely injured while mining cobalt that is used to produce lithium-ion batteries found in smartphones and electric cars.

According to a recent report from China Labor Watch, at least 1,000 Chinese school-aged teenagers are being recruited to work long and often illegal hours as “interns” at factories producing Amazon Alexa devices.

A ten-year-old Christian boy in Pakistan was allegedly raped, tortured, and killed by his Muslim employers at a dangerous scrap metal factory for demanding full pay to help support his mother, brother, and drug-addict father, a media outlet reported over the weekend.

A former New York Times reporter who covered labor issues received an onslaught of criticism on social media for a tweet he wrote saying the White House is sending the wrong message concerning child labor.

Kellogg’s shares (NYSE: K) tumbled over 2% on Wednesday, following accusations that the company benefits from child labor. The stock continued to fall after the launch of Breitbart News’ “#DumpKelloggs” campaign.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International is slamming Kellogg’s and other companies that it says are profiting from child labor and other exploitative practices.

Hundreds of people took to the streets in a suburb of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to protest the brutal killing of a 10-year-old boy.

The Jerusalem Post reports: GAZA – Child labor has risen sharply in Gaza, where youngsters toiling in garages and on construction sites have become breadwinners for families feeling the brunt of the Palestinian enclave’s 43 percent unemployment rate. In the

A New York Times article reveals that Mexico’s opium harvest is more profitable for Mexican children than a school education would be. America is only just starting to wake up to the scourge of heroin abuse among Midwest middle class youth. The spread of black tar heroin and its rising popularity among a demographic that prefers the heroin high—and lower price tag—to Oxycontin pills is truly horrifying.