Recent reports

Humphrey Hawksley reports from the brick kilns of India where more than two million people feed the booming construction sector and economic miracle by working in conditions campaigners describe as ‘slavery.’ Their work goes into building the skyscrapers, offices and call centres, but the bricks they make are now being condemned as blood bricks. India […]

Guatemala in Central America has one of the worst records of violence, corruption and treatment of workers. Humphrey Hawksley travels through the country asking why the European Union is now  giving it new trade privileges. BBC’s Our World – Guatemala’s Sweet Deal

Humphrey Hawksley goes to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to investigate the link between minerals, war and business. These are the raw materials used in our every day lives for computers, phones and household appliances. Humphrey asks if a little-known American law might force a change to how multi-national companies do business in […]

Globalisation has brought the world’s goods to the west. But how can consumers be sure they are buying food and clothing manufactured without harming workers – especially children? Humphrey Hawksley travels to the cotton fields and factories of India and discovers rampant abuse and child labour. India’s exploited child cotton workers

For years, the chocolate industry knew their raw products were farmed in unacceptable conditions – using slavery and children. Humphrey Hawksley first exposed the cocoa scandal more than a decade ago. Returning again to the Ivory Coast, he finds children taken from their parents and forced to harvest cocoa with little evidence that chocolate makers […]