Tag: child labor
Global Chocolate Supply Chain Tainted by Abuses in Brazil – Report
By Fabio Teixeira
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
The global chocolate supply chain is tainted by the use of cocoa from Brazilian farms where human...
Rights Groups Urge Better Treatment for Mongolia Child Jockeys
By Munkhchimeg Davaasharav
ULAANBAATAR (Reuters)
At the opening of Mongolia's traditional Naadam festival, red-cheeked child jockeys in brightly coloured outfits and helmets raced over the...
De Beers Rolls Out App to Clean Up Sierra Leone Diamond...
By Ed Stoddard
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters)
Global diamond giant De Beers is rolling out an app to help small-scale, artisanal diamond miners in Sierra Leone certify...
War Gives Sense of Urgency to Collaboration between Two Syrian Artists
By Ayat Basma
BEIRUT (Reuters)
One is the grandson of an Armenian troubadour who fled to Syria in 1915. The other is a descendant of...
Coca-Cola, U.S. State Dept to Use Blockchain to Combat Forced Labor
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss
NEW YORK (Reuters)
Coca-Cola Co and the U.S. State Department along with two other companies said on Friday they are launching a project...
UK Firm Pilots Using Blockchain to Help BMW Source Ethical Cobalt
By Barbara Lewis
LONDON (Reuters)
Automaker BMW is working with a London-based start-up to use transaction-recording technology blockchain to prove batteries for its electric vehicles will...
