Child labour

Retail Asia31/01/2022

Nestlé today announced a new plan to tackle child labor risks in cocoa production. At the center is an innovative income accelerator program, which aims to improve the livelihoods of cocoa-farming families, while also advancing regenerative agriculture practices and gender equality. A cash incentive will be paid directly to cocoa-farming households for certain activities such […]

Retail Asia22/12/2020

Vietnam’s rate of child labor, 5.3 percent, is around 2 percentage points lower than the average in Asia and the Pacific, a study has found. This equates to more than one million children in the ages of 5-17 engaged in labor, the survey was done in 2018 by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social […]

Retail Asia25/05/2016

International non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that child labour is used in tobacco plantations in Indonesia, whose harvest supplies local and foreign tobacco companies. Children, some of whom are just eight years old, are exposed to nicotine, handle toxic chemicals or use dangerous tools in extreme heat, HRW said in a […]

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Nestlé pledges to improve sustainable farming practices, end child labour

Vietnam child labor rate lower than regional average

Child labour used in Indonesian tobacco production, says NGO