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On Mongolia’s coal highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial security for her three children. However, the road from the mines to China is riddled with accidents, toxic pollution,...

Blackjewel agreed to cover its coalminers’ back wages, but many of them have yet to receive any funds three years after the company filed for bankruptcy

Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who is currently a senior advisor on the board of Boris Johnson's post Brexit trade panel, is trying to stop British MPs from wrecking Britain's future by inserting a series of...

Yesterday, some 100 works at Tesla’s Gigafactory, still under construction, walked out in protest after learning that a contractor on the site is using workers from outside the state...

Qatar has announced plans to build seven cities to house the migrant workers on whose backs the 2022 World Cup stadiums will be built. The largest, called "Labor City," will hold 70,000 people, as well as the second largest...

The collapse of a cement factory in Bangladesh has killed at least five people and may have trapped as many as 100 people, according to local police. Reuters reports that that factory, run by a subsidiary of the Bangladesh...

The tower commemorates the workers who died while constructing the World Cup Stadium for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. As the construction continues, the death toll keeps adding up as more workers are becoming collateral damage...

While other New Yorkers tried to minimize their time outdoors last week, Cambodian-American artist Kat Eng sat in front of an NYC H&M for a whopping 8 hours...

 Photo © Shutterstock A recent Reuters report reveals that a black labor market run by Japanese gangsters, or yakuza, has been using taxpayer funds to clean up radioactive fallout in northern Japan...

We like to fool kids (and maybe ourselves) with tales of holiday elves working with tiny hammers in a North Pole workshop. The truth is, the vast majority of toys found under the tree this year are and will be made by human...

Slavery seems like a barbaric and ancient practice, but a new map shows that it's alive and well all over the world. A new map created by Australia’s Walk Free Foundation shows that more than 29 million people across...

Following the deaths of 1,127 garment workers in the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, more than 40 of the world's leading apparel brands have signed the Accord on Fire & Building Safety in Bangladesh...

Photo by Andrew Biraj for Reuters The death toll at the horrific garment factory collapse that occurred earlier this week has now risen to 340. According to the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, 80% of the factory's...

Photo by Andrew Biraj for Reuters The death toll at the horrific garment factory collapse that occurred earlier this week has now risen to 300. According to the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, 80% of the factory's...

Late Saturday an industrial blaze took down a multi-level garment factory outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, claiming the lives of at least 112 people. The fire is said to be the country’s worst-ever in the industrial sector,...