child labor

‘I have to work to help my family’: Child laborers in Raqqa face dangerous conditions

April 10, 2024Shadow of ISIS

The campaign to liberate Raqqa in northeastern Syria from ISIS in 2017 left the city in ruins. Today, children make up a significant portion of the workforce that is rebuilding the city. One family knows the dangers of this work firsthand.

Catholic bishops outraged by Congress’ repeal of an anti-corruption measure that could support child labor

February 26, 2017Justice

These photos of Filipino children working in mines and on sugar plantations will make you cry

March 1, 2015Justice

Each Friday, miners at the Cerro Rico mine worship at shrines of "El Tio," the spirit who they also call th "Devil God of the Mountain."

Go inside ‘the mountain that eats men’ in Bolivia

October 6, 2014Global Politics

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