Leif Coorlim

Former Wall Street banker Andy Stein set up the Orphaned Starfish Foundation, teaching IT skills to kids in orphanages.

Child protection advocates have highlighted how the words we use to describe survivors of child exploitation can stigmatize them. Here are some of the terms they suggest we all stop using.

Sold by their parents, around 20,000 children work on the lake, enslaved by the fishermen they call ‘master’.

From children carrying stacks of bricks of their heads in dusty kilns, to youngsters breathing in dangerous dust in gold mines, Lisa Kristine has photographed child labor around the world.

A group of powerful anti-slavery advocates issued a warning Tuesday, declaring that “millions of lives are at risk” unless urgent, coordinated international action is taken to eliminate modern slavery by the year 2030.