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US Meatpacking Plants Illegally Employed Over 100 Children, DOL Finds
The probe found that Packers Sanitation Services had kids as young as 13 working with dangerous equipment and chemicals.
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Hyundai’s Suppliers Employ Child Labor, Democrats Call on Biden to Crack Down
Hyundai has failed to cut ties with Alabama suppliers who systematically recruited child laborers from Central America.
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Critics Slam Business-Backed Bill to Expand Child Labor in Iowa
It would allow kids as young as 14 to work in jobs like mining, logging and animal slaughtering.
![Bulls feed from a trough at a cattle feed lot in the Amazon on June 28, 2017, near Chupinguaia, Rondônia state, Brazil.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/2022_1130-cattle-ranch-400x300.jpg)
Meatpacking Giant Tied to Child Labor, Deforestation and Mass COVID Infection
The Department of Labor filed suit against Brazil meatpacking firm JBS for employing children in Minnesota and Nebraska.
![A JBS Foods meatpacking plant in Worthington, Minnesota, where three children were allegedly found working, according to a Department of Labor complaint filed on November 9, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1383992443-400x300.jpg)
Labor Department Accuses Slaughter House Company of Employing Dozens of Children
An investigation found Packers Sanitation Services Inc. employed children as young as 13 to clean dangerous machinery.
![A police officer detains a child found drying cocoa in the village of Opouyo in the Soubre region of the Ivory Coast during an operation to remove children working on cocoa plantations.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0622-child-cocoa-400x300.jpg)
Supreme Court Ruled Against Enslaved Children Even as US Celebrated Juneteenth
Child laborers on West African cocoa plantations are beaten, locked up and forced to toil for U.S. corporate profits.
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What I Learned From the Mining Community That Produced My Engagement Ring
Fair trade certification has improved gold mining conditions, but current oversight mechanisms still leave workers vulnerable.
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How Israel Withholds Labor Rights From the West Bank’s Palestinian Workers
The Israeli government is still choking the development of an independent Palestine.
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Child Labor: A Hidden Atrocity of the Syrian Crisis
A new report shows that Syrian children contribute to the family income in more than three quarters of surveyed households.
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Commemorate Universal Children’s Day: End Child Labor
In the US, we should move to ratify the CRC. Only the US and Somalia have not done so.