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The new report aims to uncover and combat the worst forms of child labor.

The 90-page report, “Trading Lives for Profit: How the Shipping Industry Circumvents Regulations to Scrap Toxic Ships on Bangladesh’s Beaches” finds that Bangladeshi shipbreaking yards often take shortcuts on safety measures, dump toxic waste directly onto the beach and the surrounding environment, and deny workers living wages, rest, or compensation in case of injuries. The report reveals an entire network used by shipowners to circumvent international regulations prohibiting the export of ships to facilities like those in Bangladesh that do not have adequate environmental or labor prot...

Samoa's gross enrollment rate for children in Early Childhood Education (E.C.E.) over the last five years remains above 20 per cent, Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture statistics show.According to the data from the M.E.S.C., 2018 was the only period when a high enrollment rate of 29 per ce...

With a brutal initiation in a frigid society, our children are robbed of their innocence too soon

 My brother and I started working during the tobacco harvests when I was seven and he was eight. There wasn’t really an alternative. My father was a tobacco worker and his earnings weren’