2024年3月14日 · Açaí harvesters expose themselves to the perils of the rainforest. Across the country, 1.9 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 were engaged in child labor in 2022, according to a...

2021年11月28日 · Brazilian and U.S. authorities say they are now investigating child labor in the açaí industry. “We can’t wait any longer,” said Rejane Alves, who heads the child labor division in Pará ...

2024年3月12日 · CNN’s Julia Vargas Jones ventures deep into Brazil’s Amazon rainforest to witness child laborers climbing trees, some 7 stories tall, to harvest the açaí berries that often end up in high ...

2024年1月10日 · Açaí berries from Brazil are considered to be extremely healthy and ecologically sustainable. But there is a dark side to the business that producers prefer to keep quiet: child labor. The sun...

2022年10月26日 · Despite international standards set by the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), child labor violations involving the acai production in the Amazon continue to make for a disturbing...

This article analyzes child labor in Latin America, the population of northern Brazil. Acknowledging that climbing the açaí tree is classified as one of the worst forms of child labor, triggers a conflict between cultural representation and prohibited work, for which a solution of intercultural dialogue,

2023年11月20日 · One child, investigators found, was paralyzed from the waist down in a fall from a tree. Others suffered spinal and skeletal problems. Some were bitten by venomous snakes. Truancy was...

2024年3月13日 · On the day CNN joined the group, one of the workers harvesting on a nearby island lost consciousness after falling from an açaí tree. Across the country, 1.9 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 were engaged in child labor in 2022, according to a December report from Brazil’s statistics bureau.

2024年6月2日 · The lush landscapes of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hide a troubling secret: child labor in the harvesting of açaí berries. Despite being celebrated as a superfood in the West, the journey of açaí berries from tree to smoothie is marred by exploitation and injustice, with children as young as seven years old risking their lives to climb ...

2023年11月13日 · Acknowledging that climbing the açaí tree is classified as one of the worst forms of child labor, triggers a conflict between cultural representation and prohibited work, for which a solution of intercultural dialogue, programs that include the population and the need for national action to combat child labor are proposed.