In 2003 alone, HIV/AIDS‐associated illnesses caused the deaths of approximately 2.9 million people worldwide, including an estimated 490,000 children younger than 15 years (UNAIDS 2004). No need to say that massive interventions are needed in order to ease the burden for the families and countries affected. Individuals, institutions, organisations and governments have different and supplementing capacities to assist within their own field of operations. This report hence aims at giving the social partners in the tobacco sector input into an action plan for the reduction in child labour on the background of poverty and the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub‐Saharan Africa.
In July 2015, Human Rights Watch interviewed 26 children, ages 16 and 17, who worked on tobacco farms in North Carolina that summer. Almost all of the children inter- viewed—25 out of 26—said they experienced sickness, pain, and discomfort while...Read More
Uzbek Forum has conducted independent, community-based monitoring and reporting on the cotton harvest since 2009. In previous reports, Uzbek Forum endeavored to expose forced labor, identify its root causes, and show the scale, impact on institution...Read More
This publication provides an overview of the epidemic of modern slavery and human trafficking, surveys some of ways that these challenges have been negatively transformed by COVID-19, and explores how approaches rooted in principles of computational...Read More
Many global businesses are run with consideration for the well-being of the people whose lives they touch. But others—whether through incompetence or by design— seriously harm the communities around them, their workers, and even the governments...Read More
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