THE Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) logged an 81-percent rise in net income in the first nine months of 2026, driven by reduced loan loss provisions and strong foreign exchange gains.

Images of children working in dimly lit mills or smudged with dirt as they harvest cotton under blazing sun are a thing of a past—at least that’s what most people believe. But a recent panel ...

Despite global gains on combating child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers, highlighting deeper challenges with the continent's fast-growing economies. The drop ...

THE number of child laborers in the Philippines — those performing hazardous jobs or working more hours than legally allowed — rose last year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said. The ranks ...

CEBU, Philippines — As the country noted a decrease in the number of working children in the year 2023, the persistence of child labor remains a concern as shown in the data reported by Philippine ...

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Another big group of child laborers, struggling to earn something for their schooling and to help provide for the needs of their families, benefited from the Bangsamoro ...

“Many of my students no longer have fingerprints because they started working on semiprecious jewel production at such a young age. This is only discovered when they apply for their Brazilian ID card.

I love chocolate and eat it quite often.While researching chocolate, I often come across issues like fair trade and child ...

There are only two types of investors: those who have unlawful child labor in their portfolios, and those who do not yet know that they have unlawful child labor in their portfolios. So we present ...