Campaigns

Buying chocolate Easter eggs? Were they produced by cocoa plantation slaves in West Africa?

  Cocoa is the essential ingredient for making chocolate Easter eggs.  A significant proportion of the world production of cocoa is grown and harvested on plantations by African slaves. These slaves are on cocoa plantations in remote rural areas in West Africa.  Some of the chocolate Easter eggs which we buy is made using slave […]

Ukraine trafficking

The Society has reports of women and children fleeing the hostilities in Ukraine being trapped into servitude. Currently, the major problem is the number of women and children laboring in the fields. Another area of concern are reports of women and girls being traffcked by criminal syndicates into houses of ill repute. Men, acting as […]

Buying chocolate Easter eggs? Were they produced by cocoa plantation slaves in West Africa?

Cocoa is the essential ingredient for making chocolate Easter eggs.  A significant proportion of the world production of cocoa is grown and harvested on plantations by African slaves. These slaves are on cocoa plantations in remote rural areas in West Africa.  Some of the chocolate Easter eggs which we buy is made using slave cocoa.  […]

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Raids/Rescues

Children rescued from construction side in India

For the second time in a month, boys have been rescued from a construction site in Trichy.  Eight boys aged 15-16 were rescued.  Six were from Jharkhand, one from West Bengal and another from Tamil Nadu.  The rescue involved our program partners in India, the Bachpan Bachao Andolan.  The boys were forced to work in unsafe […]

Boys rescued in raids in India

Four boys — one as young as 12 — were rescued by raids were conducted in commercial establishments in the State of Tamil Nadu in India. The 12-year-old worked in a bakery, a 15-year-old boy in a gas station, and the two 16-year olds in motor mechanic shop.  The raids occurred on September 22, 24, […]

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News

UNICEF Day of the African Child

    June 16, 2026.  UNICEF Day of the African Child.

World Day Against Child Labor

  Bonded child laborer supported by the Society’s program in Karnataka, India   June 12, 2026.  World Day Against Child Labor

Gennaro Maria Sarnelli

    June 30, 2026.  Anniversary of death of Blessed Gennaro Maria Sarnelli (1702–1744) who fought against child labor in the Kingdom of Naples.

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