March 7, 2021.  A survey carried out in Tamil Nadu in  India between September and November 2020 showed that child labor had increased three-fold during that period.   The investigators attribute the dramatic increase to the economic effects of Covid-19. More...

February 20, 2021.  37 people, many of them procurers and child brokers, have been arrested by police in Arizona  in a large scale operation. More...

March 5, 2021.  Yan Zhi, a members of the National People's Congress, has called for an increase in the penalty under the Criminal Law for child trafficking to 10 years, according to a report in the Global Times. More...

A photographer has produced a photographic report on child labor in Lake Volta in the Republic of Ghana in West Africa.  You can read it here. More...

March 7, 2021.  Freed devadasis march against this form of servitude.  One of the women was 15 years old when she was dedicated as Lord Hanuman's spouse.  More...

February 19, 2021.  Police rescued a 19 year old girl in the State of Karnataka in India who was to be dedicated as a devadasi.  The rescued girl's mother in this instance was  a former devadasi.  More...

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February 18, 2021.  Angelina Jolie writes about meeting a Congolese girl.   She writes that: More...

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Eight men from the Republic of Mali have commenced a class action in a US federal court against Nestle, Cargill, Mars, Mondelez, Hershey, Barry Callebaut, and Olam.  The men allege in their claim that they were trafficked into slavery and forced to harvest cocoa in the Republic of Cote D’Ivoire. The claim alleges breaches of the Harkin-Engel Protocol, under which they agreed to end child labor by 2005. More...