March 8th, 2022: Of the 152 million children trapped in child labor, 64 million are girls
October 21st, 2020: A new report out this week confirms that the chocolate industry’s deep dependence on child labor to produce cocoa, a main ingredient of chocolate, continues unabated in West Africa despite nearly two decades of interventions and manufacturers’ promises to end the worst forms of child labor
August 3rd, 2020: In 2014, under pressure from advocacy groups like the Child Labor Coalition and Human Rights Watch (HRW) concerned about hazardous child labor on tobacco farms, several tobacco companies operating in the U.S. announced they would only buy tobacco from growers who agree not to hire children under 16 to work in contact with tobacco plants
June 9th, 2020: This is the case when I read the story, “Couple torture and murder 8-year-old maid for letting parrots free, Pakistan police say”—about the death of Zohra Shah, a servant in the city of Rawalpindi in Punjab
May 20th, 2020: It’s been referred to as a “ticking time bomb” – the Corona virus and its potential impact on farmworkers– the incredibly hard-working men, women, and children who our fruits and vegetables and provide other vital agricultural work
May 14th, 2020: As is the case in most crises, the most vulnerable in society will feel the worst impacts of COVID-19
March 23rd, 2020: Here at the National Consumers League we are very proud that we’ve been a leader in the fight to end child labor since our founding in 1899
March 2nd, 2020: I didn’t quite believe my eyes when I saw the New York Times headline: “For Indonesia’s Child Jockeys, Time to Retire at 10, After 5 years of Racing.”
November 4th, 2019: Something really curious is happening in New York State
June 24th, 2019: The Child Labor Coalition is a non-partisan group that is concerned with the health and welfare of children in the U.S. and abroad
CLC members—the Ramsay Merriam Fund, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Education Association—made this web site possible through their generous support.