Child labor
FILE - In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, a bonded child laborer waits for his case to be processed after being rescued during a raid by workers from Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save Childhood Movement, in New Delhi, India. With classrooms shuttered and parents losing their jobs, many children are working in farms, illegal factories, brick kilns and roadside stalls, reversing decades of progress to stop child labor. In rural India, a nationwide lockdown imposed in March, 2020, pushed millions of people into poverty, encouraging trafficking of children from villages into cities for cheap labor. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)
Pandemic threatens India's children with child labor rising

By Biswajeet Banerjee And Sheikh Saaliq Dec. 11, 2020 11:13 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2020, file photo the sun rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court seemed concerned Tuesday, Dec. 1, about the impact of siding with food giants Nestle and Cargill and ending a lawsuit that claims they knowingly bought cocoa beans from farms in Africa that used child slave labor. The court was hearing arguments in the case by phone because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Nestle, Cargill at high court in child labor case

By Jessica Gresko Dec. 01, 2020 02:42 PM EST

Kevin Mutinda, 7, center, his sister Irene Wanzila, 10, 2nd right, and their mother Florence Mumbua, right, work to break rocks with a hammer, after Mumbua say she was left without a choice after she lost her cleaning job at a private school when coronavirus pandemic restrictions were imposed, at Kayole quarry in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. The United Nations says the COVID-19 pandemic risks significantly reducing gains made in the fight against child labor, putting millions of children at risk of being forced into exploitative and hazardous jobs, and school closures could exacerbate the problem. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
From 'role models' to sex workers: Kenya's child labor rises

By Tom Odula Oct. 20, 2020 03:57 AM EDT

Unused school materials lay on a shelf at a school in the community of Nuevo Yibeljoj, Chiapas state, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Amid the new coronavirus pandemic, Mexican education officials recently said that enrollment for the new school year was down about 10%, but teachers warn that many students enrolled out of habit, but aren't participating. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Pandemic driving children back to work, jeopardizing gains

By María Verza, Carlos Valdez And William Costa Oct. 15, 2020 09:13 AM EDT

Vannak Anan Prum, who was double trafficked, points to his illustration of an abusive former boss, a palm oil estate owner, in his graphic novel depicting his life as a slave on a fishing boat before being sold onto a Malaysian palm oil plantation, at his home in Pursat, Cambodia, Saturday, March 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Palm oil labor abuses linked to world’s top brands, banks

By Margie Mason And Robin Mcdowell Sep. 24, 2020 12:31 AM EDT