A UN report reveals that 138 million children are still engaged in child labour globally, with nearly 40% in hazardous work.

For shedding unprecedented light on child labor in Southeast Asia’s palm oil fields,and linking the abusive practice to major consumer brands,McDowell,Mason,Bakkara, Breed and Humphrey share AP’s Best ...

There is no way to eradicate child labor in the fields or to bring famers back to farming if there is no money to be made farming. Perhaps CEOs and shareholders alike will take note of the Hershey ...

Ima is among the estimated tens of thousands of children working alongside their parents in Indonesia and Malaysia, which supply 85% of the world's most consumed vegetable oil.

The voluntary self-regulation derailed legislation, then moving swiftly through Congress, that could have labeled Hershey or Snickers bars as the products of child labor. But the latest U.S. data ...

Children can’t light up, but there are some who suffer the effects of nicotine exposure as they labor in U.S. tobacco fields ... wouldn’t get hungry,” one child worker, Elena G., ...

José Velásquez Castellano started working in agriculture when he was 13 years old. Ten-hour days, five or six days a week, in North Carolina's summer heat. It was sometimes blueberries ...

Pulled from fourth grade to work fields Thousands of miles ... head of the Malaysian Palm Oil Association, called allegations of child labor very serious and urged complaints to be reported ...

An Associated Press investigation has found an army of children toiling beneath a canopy of towering palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, the main suppliers of the world’s most consumed ...

The AP used U.S. Customs records and the most recently published data from producers, traders and buyers to trace the fruits of their labor from the processing mills where palm kernels were ...

Olivia, who earned a badge for selling more than 600 boxes of cookies, had spotted palm oil as an ingredient on the back of one of her packages but was relieved to see a green tree logo next to ...