June 24th, 2019: Today, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) led the reintroduction of her Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety (CARE), which raises labor standards and protections for farm worker children to the same level set for children in all other occupations
June 22nd, 2019: The Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety was introduced by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard on June 20, 2019 with 24 original cosponsors
April 26th, 2019: “Which companies are good? Which companies can I safely buy from without risk that their products are made by child labor or forced labor?”
December 18th, 2018: The goal of the Cocoa Committee’s efforts is to reduce child labor, child trafficking and deforestation in West Africa, where more than two million children help produce cocoa, a critical ingredient in the chocolate that so many of us consume
December 7th, 2018: In the wake of a new child labor report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the Child Labor Coalition (CLC) joins Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) in voicing concern for the health and safety of 2.5 million U.S. children who work for wages, particularly those who toil in sectors like agriculture with elevated injury and fatality rates
November 8th, 2018: Consumers love cotton. It’s soft, comfortable and natural
September 7th, 2018: For me fairness would be treating working children the same under US law
July 25th, 2018: There were an estimated 27.6 million victims of human trafficking worldwide at any given time in 2021 (U.S. Department of State).
July 16th, 2018: Child labor in Turkey remains prevalent. In 2012, around 900,000 children worked in Turkey.
July 16th, 2018: Worldwide 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are in employment.
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.