This is the Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. What can democracies do to make this a reality?
What the Nobel Committee Got Right
In calling out corporations for profiting off child labor, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi recognized that you can’t have peace without justice.
Organizing Garment Workers in Bangladesh
How a former child laborer became a union organizer for Bangladesh’s garment workers.
Food of the Gods
A prominent part of holiday festivities is chocolate, one of our most adored comfort foods. Chocolate is made from the beans (actually the seeds) of the pods that grow on the trunk and main branches of the cocoa plant. In a fitting tribute to the Mayan (and later the Aztec) belief in the divine origin of cocoa, Swedish scientist and father of modern plant taxonomy, Carolus Linnaeus, gave the cocoa tree the name Theobroma cacao. Theobroma is Greek for “food of the gods,” and cacao is derived from the Mayan word ka’kau.