Child labour

Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s latest book consists of 12 comprehensive accounts of children he has rescued. These gut-wrenching stories have been picked from those of countless nameless, faceless children across India, who routinely become slaves in industries such as stone quarrying, mica mining, carpet weaving, agriculture and in circuses and brick kilns. They are exploited, kidnapped, trafficked, sold, abused and experience horrific incidents of trauma. A child cleaning utensils at a roadside hotel.…

As companies like Uber transition the world onto the gig economy, and AI promises to eliminate the need for large swaths of the workforce, the great state of Iowa is taking a stand, declaring once and for all that child labor is good, actually.Robinhood App Lays Off 9% of StaffIn a session starting at 3:36 am Tuesday morning, Republicans in the Iowa Senate passed SF 542, a bill that undoes protections for child workers, according to WHO 13 News Des Moines, a local NBC affiliate. It’s part of a broader Republican-led…

A worker carries wet cobalt at the Shinkolobwe Cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: Schalk van Zuydam (AP)The federal government has, for the first time, included crucial raw materials needed for the clean energy transition under a list of goods that have child or forced labor in their supply chains.E&E News was the first to report on the change, which the Biden administration rolled out on Tuesday. The administration this week updated the list of goods, which it has maintained since 2006, with…