Switch to Products Made without Child Labor
June 12 is the UN World Day Against Child Labor. Many of your friends and family probably don't know that child labor exists today.
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In Search of Freedomville
In a tiny speck of a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a community of rock quarry miners have given their cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. The miners named their village in 2000, only a few months after they staged a slave revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who had held their families in slavery in rock quarries for generations. If you search for Azad Nagar on a map, you won’t find it. To everyone else, it’s called Sonbarsa. Located in the poorest province in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sonbarsa is a barren, rocky, plot of land in the middle of one of the most densely populated states in the world.
Forced Labor in Tomato Fields - Fair Food Program
Each day tomato farm workers in the U.S. are subject to many forms of labor abuse, including slavery.