Nestlé today announced a new plan to tackle child labor risks in cocoa production. At the center is an innovative income accelerator program, which aims to improve the livelihoods of cocoa-farming families, while also advancing regenerative agriculture…
Vietnam’s rate of child labor, 5.3 percent, is around 2 percentage points lower than the average in Asia and the Pacific, a study has found. This equates to more than one million children in the ages of 5-17 engaged in labor, the survey was done in 2018 by…
International non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that child labour is used in tobacco plantations in Indonesia, whose harvest supplies local and foreign tobacco companies. Children, some of whom are just eight years old,…