Approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year

June 5, 2008 – 8:15 am | by FICA | Briefing on the Eighth Annual Trafficking in Persons, Ambassador Mark P. Lagon, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons said that “According to the U.S. intelligence community, approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year...
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WAITING TO WALK FREE: Several boys said they were inhumanly treated at the factory.
Mumbai: Seventeen-year-old Chandu works at a Mother Dairy factory in Goregaon. He left his hometown and came to Mumbai when a contractor offered him a summer job, but after he started work, he was forcibly kept there. He and several other boys, mostly from Vidarbha and Bihar, say they are inhumanly treated at the factory and also allege that they are fed inedible food. The boys also said that the promised salary of Rs 60 per day is rarely given to them.
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Latin American countries call for end to child labor

RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua and Chile on Thursday marked the World Day Against Child Labor by appealing for an end to child exploitation.
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West Bengal chapter of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Wednesday joined hands with a child rights group, Save the Children, and pledged to stop child labor in industries.

The CII also decided to rehabilitate the affected children and help them in higher education.
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NEW DELHI (ICNS): As the world is observed Anti-child Labor Day on June 12, Evangelical Fellowship of India Children At Risk (EFICAR) remembered the day seeking prayers for child labors. The Evangelical group requested prayers for the “stringent implementation” of laws that ban child labor in India. It said such prayers are need so that people become aware of the legal provisions “so that our nation will become a better and safe place for children to live in.” In a message it said child labor is “the biggest” issue in India as the nation has 12.7 million child labors aged 5-14, which is “the highest in the world.”
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New Delhi, June 12: The neon lights at India Habitat Centre’s posh Jacaranda Hall did daze 18-year-old Swarupa a bit. For her, it was the first visit outside of Chitlaya, a tiny hamlet in Andhra Pradesh’s Ranga Reddy district where light and water don’t come easy, and poverty rules.
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DHAKA, June 12 -- Around 8.6 million children are not attending schools in Bangladesh and many of them have to start working at an early age, private news agency UNB reported Thursday. The figure was revealed at a national seminar on child labor held here on Thursday observing the World Day Against Child Labor. This year's theme for the day is: Education: The Right Response to Child Labor. International Labor Organization (ILO), the UNICEF and UNESCO jointly labor the seminar in collaboration with Ministries of Labor and Employment and Primary and Mass Education of Bangladesh.
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At least 1.5 Million children are engaged in hazardous occupations in the country and the number is rising day by day due to the hike in food price. Moreover, most of them work with little or no pay but for three meager meals.
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LAHORE: About 10 million children across the country are victims of child labor, and the World Day Against Child Labor is being celebrated with an aim to end it on Thursday (today).
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KARACHI - "I am the victim of circumstances, I would have been in school but poverty compelled my parents to send me to work", said Aamir, a 13-year-old worker in a leather industry, while speaking at a child labor convention titled 'Let Us Live Like a Child Not Laborer' labor by Society for Protection of the Rights of Children (SPARC) in collaboration with All Pakistan Leather and Garment Workers Association here at Kornagi Park on Wednesday. Keeping in view the international efforts to combat child labor, SPARC has launched a weeklong countrywide campaign from June 6 against the child labor in hazardous occupations. With a view to highlight the worst impacts of work on the mental and physical health of child workers, an awareness-raising event was labor to involve parents, employers and workers at the industrial area of the city. More than two thousand families participated in the event and shared their views regarding child labor in leather garment, textile and chemical industries.
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ISLAMABAD: The UK-based Save the Children has called for an end to all forms of child labor on World Day against Child Labor on June 12.

This call for action follows the Child Rights Situation Analysis of Save the Children which indicates that child labor is pervasive, all over the country in both rural and urban areas, and the children laborers belong to marginalized and poor communities.
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PESHAWAR: Like other parts of the country, World Day Against Child Labor was observed in NWFP on Thursday with the commitment that child labor will be eliminated through education and training.
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The International Day to Fight against Child Labor is being observed all over the country by organizing various programmes Thursday. With the slogan "Education: The Best Answer to Fight Child Labor", Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), a non-governmental organizations working for the rights of children in the country, is holding interaction and organizing various other programs to mark the day. CWIN is also the regional coordinator of Global March Against Child Labor.
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Cambodian school children have taken to the streets to mark World Against Child Labor Day, calling for parents to send their kids to school, rather than forcing them to work.
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MANILA, Philippines -- Fewer children are being drafted into the Philippines labor force, but keeping them in school remains a major challenge, a UN official said Thursday. The number of Filipino children aged between five and 14 who are in the labor force has fallen from 913,000 in 2003 to 774,000 in 2005, said Keiko Niimi, a regional official of the UN's International Labor Organization. "Despite all efforts, the fight against child labor remains a challenge," she said during a ceremony in Manila to mark World Day Against Child Labor. "We have to ensure that child laborers are successfully integrated in schools and that they do not return to work until they grow up and acquire education and training," she said.
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China must strengthen enforcement of its legislation against child labor, legal experts said on the eve of the World Day Against Child Labor, which falls today.

Director of the Beijing Juvenile Legal Aid and Research Center Tong Lihua said the central government's determination to wipe out child labor is "clear and beyond doubt".
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‘Today marks World Day Against Child Labor. This year’s theme focuses on education as the right response and the key to breaking the poverty cycle.

In the vast food processing sector of Thailand, a little girl stands with her father, toiling for 12 hours a day, six days a week. For this work she will be paid 800-900 baht per week.
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As World Day Against Child Labor is marked as part of continuing efforts to stamp out the practice around the globe, there are hundreds of thousands of underage children in Central Asia skipping school to work as unskilled laborers in cities or on farms.
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Children yesterday gathered in Ankara's Abdi İpekçi Park, known for demonstrations demanding freedoms and rights, to call for an end to child labor -- an urgent message that came on this year's World Day against Child Labor. Apprentices working in Ankara's industrial zones, children working in agricultural fields as seasonal workers and primary school students were all present, carrying a banners that said "Send children to school, not to work,"
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ANTANANARIVO, June 12 Various activities were held here on Thursday over the island country of Madagascar to mark the World Day against Child Labor.
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The northern Kwanza Norte Province's branch of the National Children Institute (INAC) promotes, this Thursday in Ndalatando City, a meeting to discuss matters relating to the fight against the exploitation of child labor.  The event, to held under the 12 June Date (World Day Against Child Labor), aims at mobilizing society for the prevention and eradication of the practice of using minors in activities that are not suitable for their age, reads a document received by ANGOP on Wednesday.
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Mr James Kofi Annan, Founder of Challenging Heights, a non-governmental organization committed to defending the cause of children, on Thursday called for better implementation of children’s policies to end the child labor problem.
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Ms Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Employment (MMYE) on Friday, called on both National and International stakeholders in the welfare of children, to join forces and increase their commitment to ending child labor.The Minister said education must be made accessible to all children of school going age.
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More than 1.7 million Kenyan children of school-going age are out of classrooms despite the free primary education programme introduced five years ago.

Most of the children were engaged in activities which hindered their participation in education, among them child labor, the minister for Gender and Children Affairs minister, Ms Esther Murugi Mathenge, said on Monday.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 10, 2008/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- On 10 June, two days before the World Day Against Child Labor, the European Commission (EC) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) jointly launched the TACKLE project to fight child labor in Kenya, Zambia, Sudan, Madagascar, Mali, Angola, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Guyana and Sierra Leone by providing access to basic education and training.
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The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) has called on authorities to expedite the drafting of a bill that would harmonize laws on children's welfare.
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The situation in the country is “alarming” given that Macedonia is a small country of two million people, the “First Children's Embassy -Megjashi” Global March National Coordinator writes in a press release issued on June 12, the International Day against Child Labor.
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