Today, 152 million children—children—are in forced labor around the world, along with 40 million people are simply slaves. Don’t turn your head away! Because we need to know about this—and understand the movement afoot to end this moral stain on the planet. After participating in a United Nations summit, I speak to two leading global […]
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Episode 49: Chains of Work—The Scourge of Global Child Labor and Slavery
Posted on 27 September 2017.
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Episode 34: Your iPhone Was Made By A Child Slave…And Wal-Mart Breaks The Law Again
Posted on 14 June 2017.
We can’t look away: 168 million children are laboring all around the world, usually in brutal conditions, partly to churn out the piles of consumer goods we lap up. I speak with a leading global organizer trying to stop child labor. And, surprise, surprise, Wal-Mart is in the thick of that scandal…as well as breaking […]
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This Isn’t Kosher Behavior
Posted on 06 August 2008.
This has been an on-going story. An update today via The NYTimes (quick post today, folks, because of work craziness): State labor investigators have identified 57 under-age workers who were employed at a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa and have asked the attorney general to bring criminal charges against the company for child […]
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