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The children who run away to work: Ethiopia's hidden weavers

13-year-old Mathewos has been weaving in a windowless room since his mother fell sick - one of 16 million child labourers in Ethiopia, where families often fall prey to traffickers who promise to educate their children

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Chinese scammers enslave jobless teachers and tourists in Cambodia
Cambodia shut its borders when COVID-19 struck, giving rise to new wave of trafficking, with stranded foreign workers and tourists lured into working for fraudulent investment schemes

Twin threats: Climate migrants said to face greater risk of modern slavery
New report warns that millions more people displaced by climate change will be exposed to trafficking and slavery in the coming decades, and calls for policies to protect them

Is Bitcoin a game-changer for migrant workers?
With migrants around the world losing billions of dollars every year through remittance fees on traditional money transfers, could cryptocurrency be the new way forward?

COVID-fuelled child labour crisis spurs call for global social protection fund
Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi said $52 billion could provide cash payments to every child and pregnant woman in low-income countries - a fraction of what Europe spends each year on such programmes for its own population.

EXCLUSIVE: Cocoa giant in Brazil slave labour probe says it can't trace supplies
Olam International is being sued by Brazilian prosecutors for allegedly failing to address labor abuses in its supply chain

Feared and forgotten, Congo's Ebola orphans work to survive Hundreds of children orphaned by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been driven to work amid trauma, discrimination and fear around the disease

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Stop Slavery Award: applications now open

The Stop Slavery Award celebrates the wide range of actors dedicated to ending modern slavery and human trafficking. Our six Award categories recognise grassroots organisations on the frontlines, businesses of all sizes who are rooting out forced labour from their supply chains, journalists raising awareness of the scourge, innovators in this space and cross-sector collaborators.


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News from the Partnership Against Child Exploitation (PACE)

The Thomson Reuters Foundation is proud to be a member of PACE – an international consortium tackling the worst forms of child labour in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia.


To commemorate the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, PACE consortium member UN Global Compact Network UK launched the ‘Elimination of Child Labour Webinar Series’. Click here to watch the first episode - ‘An introduction to child labour in global supply chains’ - and stay up to date with the series.

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