In many countries all over the world, children are being used as cheap workers in commodities that we use every day. The US Department of Labour recently published a list of the products that were most likely to be products of child and forced labour and which countries they came from so that consumers could make an attempt to avoid such products. Products and countries that used both child and/or forced labour were:

- Garments from Argentina
- Yerba Mate tea from Argentina
- Gold and Cotton from Burkina Faso
- Bamboo, bricks, jade, rubber and rice from Burma
- Cotton, electronics, and fireworks from China
- Columbian coffee
- Egyptian cotton
-Rice, leather, and silk from India

The list is far too long to reproduce in its entirety, but I would encourage all of you to download it and give it a read.