Child labor on the rise for the first time in 20 years
He emphasizes the need to tackle the underlying causes of child labor by eradicating forced labor, ensuring safe and healthy workplaces, empowering workers to organize and voice their concerns, and eliminating discrimination, given that child labor predominantly impacts marginalized communities.
Seoul to compensate Japan wartime forced labour victims
Japan and the United States immediately welcomed the announcement, but victims' groups said it fell far short of their demand for a full apology from Tokyo and direct compensation from the Japanese companies involved. Seoul-Tokyo ties have long been strained over Tokyo's brutal 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula,...
50 million people stuck in ‘modern slavery’: UN
The United Nations had set a goal to eradicate all forms of modern slavery by 2030, but instead the number of people caught up in forced labor or forced marriage ballooned by 10 million between 2016 and 2021, according to a new report. The study, by the UN's agencies for...
US bans Xinjiang imports, forcing firms to navigate sticky diplomacy
The new law bans the import of all goods from the region unless companies offer verifiable proof that production did not involve forced labor.
