Protests and unrest over worker treatment have plagued the garment industry in Bangladesh in recent years, and a new report found that many of those workers-including children-have experienced ...

Rudrapur: In a significant move to support working women, Kumaon is set to have its first working women's hostel in Udham ...

Child rights activist Virgil D. Sami founded Arunodaya Centre to eradicate child labour through education and community empowerment.

The study revealed exploitative workplace practices, hazardous work for young workers ... the study were illegally employed as child laborers in RMG factories. Thirty-two percent of adult RMG ...

Indian Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi has issued a powerful rallying cry to people around the world to join the fight ...

Despite laws against it, child labour continues to exploit millions of children in Bangladesh. To address it properly, along with legal issues, the cultural and social dimensions must also be taken in ...

Though Bangladesh has increased oversight and auditing in factories to reduce child labor, the study found that for every 15 RMG workers, one is a minor. And one-fifth of these children work in ...

A new report by the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham and GoodWeave International claims modern slavery and child labour persists in Bangladesh's ready-made garment (RMG) supply chains.

Despite his desire to attend school, 11-year-old Sharif lacks the means to do so. Driven by financial necessity, he has ...

Powell defined sweatshops as jobs that pay workers low wages — or rather, jobs that are “low-pay by standards that we’re used to hearing” — and that have dangerous working conditions. Saying that ...

Kenya is also a signatory to conventions prohibiting child labour and hazardous work for children. The grim reality of child labour in the sector is mirrored in dwindling numbers in schools in these ...