She was given the “hardest job under heaven”: upholding birth limits enforced by often brutal local officials. She came to support softening the policy, then abolishing it.

Placing children in unsafe or unstable environments resulted in more than 20,000 foster youth being reported missing in 2022, according to a federal report. The “systemic failure” of the foster care ...

Dhaka, Dec. 17 -- thirds of child labourers in Bangladesh are employed in industrial and factory settings, exposing them to serious health and safety risks, a report said on Wednesday.

Several thousands of people have walked towards the Portuguese parliament in Lisbon to protest against a labour law reform put forward by the government of Prime Minister Luis Montenegro. (AP Video by ...

A new report by the ITUC, Education International (EI) and the Global March Against Child Labour has found serious setbacks in efforts to eradicate child labour. Drawing on responses from civil ...

LLMs like Chat GPT come with major social costs — including child labor — that we can't ignore. Do we really need progress that's built on the suffering of others? When you purchase through links on ...

Read another story in the series of Capital & Main’s investigation: Child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides amid lax enforcement. The summer sun burned through the clouds in California’s Salinas ...