Child Labour

13 Nov 2012

In Tanzania, I met "Julius", a boy of about 13, who works in an artisanal gold mine. He told me he digs ore in pits more than 15 metres deep and mixes toxic mercury with ground ore to retrieve the...

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'Ludicrous' laws fail trafficking victims

29 Jul 2012

Hong Kong's 'ludicrous' and 'inept' human-trafficking laws are punishing victims of the crime rather than those who bring them to the city, a leading human rights solicitor says.

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Trafficking cloud hovers over HK

9 Jul 2012

The Security Bureau has taken issue with a closely watched annual report on human trafficking by the US State Department, which says Hong Kong has failed to make any discernible progress in...

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HK laws 'fail to combat human trafficking'

1 Jul 2012

A US State Department report has delivered a scathing assessment of Hong Kong's laws against human trafficking, comparing the city's record on combating the problem to that of Cambodia, the...

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Child labour shames India's middle class

11 Apr 2012

A New Delhi couple who mistreated their teenaged servant have become hate figures in the media but their behaviour is common.

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Children in the hands of danger

19 Jan 2012

The issues

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Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

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George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

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Cambodia takes a stand against slavery

The Issue

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The next step

'Defeating human trafficking,' said former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, 'is a great moral calling.' Human trafficking involves sexual exploitation, forced labour or debt bondage, and...

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Target's suppliers use under-age labour: watchdog

Three mainland suppliers of giant US retailer Target have been accused by a workers' rights group of violating child labour regulations.

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Owed some protection

Governments are benefiting from the labour of sex workers, who increase their countries' gross domestic product and contribute directly to state coffers through taxes and fees paid by...

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Children at work

More than 450 representatives from 80 countries took part in the Global Child Labour Conference last week. They agreed on working harder to get rid of the worst forms of child labour by 2016. But...

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US says HK slipping in exploitation fight

The US State Department yesterday said Hong Kong was doing worse in combating human-trafficking within its borders.

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