Why Your Morning Coffee Could Be the Product of Child Labor
Devastating Reports of Child Labor Around the Globe Bananas in
Ecuador, Nicaragua, Belize, and the Philippines; broccoli in
Guatemala; carpets in India, Nepal, and Pakistan; cocoa in
Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Cameroon; coffee in Colombia,
the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Kenya, Mexico, and Panama;
cotton in Egypt, Brazil, China, Uzbekistan, and Turkey;
electronics and toys in China, clothing in China, India,
Malaysia, Thailand, and Argentina; rice in Brazil, India, and
the Philippines; melons, onions, and tomatoes in Mexico What
these products – along with diamonds, gold, sugarcane, shoes,
rare earth and strategic metals – have in common is that they’re
among the 130 different products made by child and forced labor
in 71 countries listed in reports released earlier this month by
the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor
Affairs (ILAB). Two of these reports are required by Acts of
Congress, The Findings on the Worst Forms