Child Labour

PICTURES: Teenage Skateboarders Killed By A Child Bomber In Kabul

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 11.09.2012 | UK

Selling trinkets, scarves and chewing gum, child street sellers cluster around the NATO buildings in Kabul to help support their families. One Sat...

Samsung To Investigate Child Labour Claims Against Supplier's Chinese Factory

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 08.08.2012 | UK Tech

Samsung will send a team to investigate claims of child labour at one of its suppliers' factories. A report by China Labour Watch said that HEG Ele...

India's Tobacco Girls

Davinder Kumar | Posted 11.08.2012 | UK
Davinder Kumar

Five-year-old Aliya thinks it is some kind of a game she must soon master to be a winner. From the time she wakes up till she goes to bed Aliya watches her mother and all girls and women in her neighbourhood consumed in a frantic race. They all make beedis - the traditional hand-rolled Indian cigarettes.

Children Harvested for their Organs and Sexual Slavery

Kerry Ann Akers | Posted 03.08.2012 | UK
Kerry Ann Akers

The Ugandan Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development is investigating judicial officers, probation officers, orphanages and passport control ...

Why Women Take Two Hours Longer To Give Birth Than Their Grandmothers

The Huffington Post UK | Kyrsty Hazell | Posted 02.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle

Pregnant women are spending more time in labour now than 50 years ago, a recent study has discovered. The research by the National Institutes of He...

Child Exploitation In Britain 'On The Rise' As Minors Trafficked For Labour

PA | Posted 05.01.2012 | UK

Britain's record on protecting children from workplace exploitation worsened over the past year, new research claims. The UK was rated "medium risk...

Businesses Risk Complicity In Forced Labour Overseas

Huffington Post UK | Peter Guest | Posted 20.12.2011 | UK

Forced labour is still widespread in emerging economies that are vital to the supply chains of major multinational businesses, according to analysis f...