LONDON/ABIDJAN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The head of Ghana's cocoa regulator on Thursday rejected the findings of studies funded by Western countries that have shown child labour is on the rise in the ...

We write in advance of the 100th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (the “Committee”) and its review of Ghana. This submission focuses on the rights of children with disabilities, ...

Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters. Nearly half children in cocoa-growing households in Ghana and Ivory Coast engaged in child labour Child labour monitoring ...

More than 20,000 children are forced into slavery on Lake Volta, the International Labour Organization estimates. Brown is one of thousands of volunteer "mappers" around the world laying down digital ...

A case has been brought against the chocolate industry giant Cargill in the Washington D.C. Superior Court that alleges the company is using exploitative child labor. The case is focused on children ...

Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch) has called for urgent parliamentary intervention to address a growing trend of truancy and ...

Child labour is increasingly recognised as a problem in west African countries such as Ghana and the Ivory Coast, where 70 per cent of the world's chocolate is sourced. Those affected are often ...

Ghana is among the top mineral producing countries in Africa . While large-scale mining companies obtain permits to extract the minerals, smaller groups and individuals also engage in small-scale ...

In this article we will share the list of 20 countries that use child labor or forced labor for goods production. Although the world has progressed so much, two inhumane forms of labor — child labor ...