Biggest Companies that Abuse Child Labor
This company signed an industry agreement in 2001 to cancel child labour from their Ghana and Ivory Coast-based cocoa farms, but still faced criticism. They went through a lawsuit in 2005 from former child workers, but faced no charges.
What is Nestlé
How can you educate yourself.
What is you can use resources such as: good ethical companies, books, podcasts, and statistics, and then share what you learn with friends, family, co-workers, and others, and work together to increase your knowledge and raise awareness.
Why wont people boycott these companies?
What is they don't want to pay more money for items produced by ethically sound companies. Companies that utilize child labor can charge substantially less for their products due to cheap production.
How can we replace these workers?
What is make better machines and technology to eventually replace the need for so many workers. If these companies had the access to these machines this would eradicate the need for these laborers.
This company faces allegations of neglect in various production factories and criticism on sustainability practices. They face reports that they have been using child labour in Myanmar, Bangladesh and Cambodia – and paying as little as 13 pence an hour, but justify this by saying, "the legal working age in Myanmar is 14."
What is Hennes & Mauritz (H&M)
How can you contact retail stores, manufacturers, and importers
What is ask them questions about the origins of their products. Do not buy products that involve child labor. Spread awareness of why you will not buy their products and make the company aware of your reasons. Give them suggestions for ethical products and services they can offer instead.
Why won't the government stop this?
What is the Government implemented a ban in 1993 in force ("A prohibition on work between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on school days by minors under age 18, without a writ- ten exception issued by the child's school, was adopted; the ban replaces a prohibition on work by minors under age 14 while school is in session. Jan 27, 1993") but this only help producers in the global North, not internationally.
What is make harsher punishments for countries that sell their products in the USA. Don't allow companies who abuse child labor to sell products in state boarders.
In 2018 this company was accused of child labour being used to extract cobalt for the company in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was claimed that children as young as 7 are mining the product in toxic and hostile conditions for 12 hours a day.
What is Microsoft
How can you contact local, regional, and national legislators.
What is trying to pass laws that ensure no products in your city/state/country are made with child labor. Encourage them to adopt codes of conduct which include concern for humane, sustainable, just practices. Eradicate the normalization of child labor.
Why won't companies eradicate this practice?
What is it is impossible for these companies to determine the source of their raw materials and whether those materials were acquired ethically. They cannot work with suppliers to make this information apparent to them.
How can you change your lifestyle to stop buying from these companies?
Start shopping at second hand stores for clothing or rewear your old clothing. Learn ways to become self sufficient and create own ways to make your own clothing.
This company is facing turmoil in their west African cocoa farms and are now facing legal action for their practices. There are claims that they have widespread child labour practices on their supply farms.
How can you invest ethically?
What is if you’re a shareholder, use your voice to ensure that your companies support humane, sustainable, just practices that don’t include child labor. Do not endorse companies that use child labor for their own gain.
Why can we not stop funding or investing in these companies?
What is the use of child labor is around 10 percent globally. The most common field for child labor, agriculture (70%). 72% percent of all child laborers work with their families. Because of these high statistics of where child labor is found, it is hard to track the origins of all suppliers of all the companies investors are investing in.
What is increase awareness of its harmful impacts on children’s development. This is proven to have a high impact on communities. Find ways to get respected local authority figures get involved in your smaller communities.
This company was exposed that a Chinese contractor was employing 74 minors in 2013, the company also admitted that its bestselling phone was being made by schoolchildren.
What is Apple
How can you contact government leaders?
What is write letters to the heads of countries that permit any form of child slavery/forced labor and ask them to strengthen and enforce their laws, and to increase educational opportunities for children and humane, sustainable business opportunities for adults. Boycott companies that these countries lean on heavily for income to encourage them to change their ways.
Why do foreign leaders not eradicate child labor in their countries?
How can we help the children in foreign countries?
What is studies show that higher education rates lead to lower instances of child labor. Working with teachers in these countries via the internet or missions work can greatly impact the number of children who attend school. If we can get these numbers up the amount of child laborers would dramatically be lowered.