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Child labor

Some of world’s most traded goods—coffee, chocolate, tea, bananas, palm oil, and timber products—have human rights abuses, like child labor, embedded in their supply chains. In fact, the majority of children engaged in child labor worldwide—71  percent—are found in the agricultural sector.

There is no place in responsible business practices for child labor and other human rights violations. That’s why our 2020 Certification Program is shifting to an “Assess-and-address” approach, which goes much further than a simple prohibition approach in its ability to drive change on human rights. This risk-based approach focuses on prevention, collaboration, and improvement. It incentivizes farmers to tackle the root causes of child labor in collaboration with their supply chain, local government, and civil society, rather than hide it.

To further support farmers in their due diligence journey to prevent, monitor, and remediate the issue, we have developed a child labor toolkit. This step-by-step guide helps farms, businesses, and others to implement child labor due diligence, including risk assessments, mitigation actions, remediation, monitoring, engaging with children safely, and context behind legislation.

We call on you to take action to tackle child labor in your supply chain. Please contact us with additional questions.

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Child Labor Toolkit

Our comprehensive child labor toolkit offers step-by-step modules to assess, mitigate, monitor and remediate child labor in agricultural settings.

Advancing the Human Rights of Rural People

More information about the Rainforest Alliance’s work to protect human rights and prevent child labor.

Tackling Child Labor During COVID-19

Written by Kunera Moore, Lead Child Labor, Rainforest Alliance

Addressing Child Labor on Hazelnut Farms in Turkey

Learn more about our community approach to addressing child labor in Turkey.

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2021 Annual Report: We Grow Together

Explore the Rainforest Alliance 2021 Annual Report! Inside you’ll meet the farmers, forest communities, businesses, and individuals who are working with us to create a world where people and nature
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Published on June 15, 2022
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Integrated Systems to Tackle Child Labor

More than 70 percent of all child labor cases are found in the agricultural sector. While banning child labor on farms is commonly perceived to be a silver bullet, it’s simply not enough. The best way
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Published on May 19, 2022
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Piloting our 2020 Sustainable Agriculture Standard: how our assess-and-address approach is tackling human rights issues

Our 2020 Certification Program promotes an assess-and-address approach and grievance mechanism for tackling human rights issues. This new, risk-based system focuses on prevention, engagement, and improvement and incentivizes farmers and companies to tackle human rights issues rather than hide them. It also requires farms and farmer groups to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment.[Read more...]

Published on April 21, 2022

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We work with almost one million cocoa farmers to build thriving livelihoods and climate resilience through certification and training.[Read more...]

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Our Work to Prevent Child Labor on Guatemalan Coffee Farms

For the Rainforest Alliance’s Claudia Medrano, preventing child labor in Guatemala’s coffee landscapes is personal[Read more...]

Published on February 16, 2022 | by Claudia Medrano, Rainforest Alliance senior manager for standards and assurance in Latin America

Topics: 35th AnniversaryCoffeeGuatemalaInsights

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Opinion: Child labor is on the rise; here’s how to prevent it

Published on January 31, 2022 | Devex

Child labor must stop but it is a complex issue with different social, economic, and political causes.

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