See also: Children's rights, Labor
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-d...
Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures.
They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home.
A year on from the Saffron revolution, the people of a once-prosperous nation are still mired in poverty.
According to the United Nations, the average daily pay in Myanmar is $0.67.
An estimated three million people have been left homeless after massive floods swamped hundreds of villages in northern India.
August, 2008: Bukeni Waruzi, WITNESS Program Coordinator for Africa and the Middle East, traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to offer video advocacy training for 20 young human rights activists from Sp...
This 12 minute video is a powerful, succinct introduction to modern day slavery. Slaves from around the world share their stories and ultimately inspire us to end slavery.
Thousands of children as young as four are being forced to work in brick factories in Afghanistan.
Some of them work up to 12 hours a day, to help pay off debts owed by their families.
Police have detained 168 people linked to a human-trafficking network supplying slave labour to mines and brick works in northern and central China, the state Xinhua news agency reports.
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