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Video: Uzbek Children in the Cotton Fields (Three part documentary) |
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ILO Says Criminals Make Billions From Forced Labor |
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The International Labor Organization says criminals are making $20 billion a year from forced labor and that figure is substantially higher when profits from sexual exploitation are factored in. A new report launched by the ILO in Geneva finds the impact of the global economic and jobs crisis is worsening the forced labor problem.
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Turkey: Child labor likely to increase in Turkey despite government’s best efforts |
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Experts have warned that the global economic crisis may lead to a resurgence in child labor in Turkey even though the country has been exemplary in its struggle against the practice, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO). The Ministry of Labor and Social Security, which has implemented large-scale projects to curb child labor in recent years together with the International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC), has prepared another five years of plans to deal with the issue.
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Watch Video: India's invisible poor: Child trafficking |
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Tens of thousands of children in India are trafficked every year. The poorest families are at risk and they're most vulnerable after the floods in the rainy season when families can become separated - but child protection is far from the political agenda. So what do the elections mean for the country's children as another rainy season is soon to be upon them. In this film from Bihar, India's poorest state, we hear first hand from some of the young victims
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EC warns against employing child labor |
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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has warned the District Election Officers and the Returning Officers that they would be personally held responsible if there was any report of employment of child laborers for poll-related works.
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Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) Announces Recipients of the 14th Annual Defender of Democracy Awards |
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NEW YORK, 18 May 2009 - Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) will
present the 2009 Defender of Democracy Awards to Mr. Kailash Satyarthi of
India, Founder/Chair of the Global March Against Child Labor, and Ch. Aitzaz
Ahsan of Pakistan, Barrister-at-Law, Senior Advocate Supreme Court and.
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Human Markets: Highly lucrative, life-destroying trade |
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A leading social activist from the North East working in the problem area of human trafficking has shed light on the practice of human trafficking in India’s north east, pointing out that this can no longer be ignored. Hasina Kharbhih, founder and team leader of Impulse NGO Network, in a recent interview given to Rachael Kilsby, currently working for Impulse NGO Network in Shillong
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School dropout rate increasing in Kiphire |
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School dropouts in Kiphire district is on the rise – in the year 2008, there were 2009 school dropouts while this year, the number of school dropouts has increased to 2313. This was informed by the Assistant District Coordinator (SSA) during the daylong programme on Kiphire district ASER dissemination discussion organized by the Hills Club. The ADC (SSA) pointed out that the lack of teachers in the institute is the main factor contributing to dropouts from school.
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IMF Combine Fiscal Stimulus with Broader Social Dialogue |
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Statement from Global March Against Child Labor representing 2000 member organizations in 100 countries including ITUC and Education International representing the interest of the child laborers and the hardest to reach children worldwide.
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United States: Build-A-Bear Workshop fined for violating child labor laws |
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The Labor Department reported Monday that Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. has paid penalties for violating child labor laws following investigations at five locations, including at Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa.
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South Africa: Child labor ban increases poverty, but raises hope |
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RAWSONVILLE, 20 May 2009 (IRIN) - It took the loss of an 11-year-old farm worker's leg for farmers in South Africa's Western Cape Province to belatedly heed legislation outlawing child workers, but the consequences of respecting the law has had adverse and unintended effects on those it seeks to protect.
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Fiji: Child labor law and policy to be scrutinized |
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In its bid to deal with child labor issues more effectively, the Ministry of Labor is working towards scrutinizing the child labor laws and policies in the country.
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China: Child Labor Alleged at Factory |
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Workers at a Chinese shoe factory say they are underage, and that officials switched their identification papers to make them seem older HONG KONG—Members of a Chinese minority group sent to work in a shoe factory thousands of miles from home include children, with some parents allegedly coerced into letting them go, workers at the factory have said.
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Sierra Leone: Harvard Study Criticizes Child Labor in Diamond Mines |
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Harvard University's human rights program says children are being exploited as a source of cheap labor for diamond mines in Sierra Leone. Concern about Sierra Leone's so-called "blood diamonds" used by rebels to finance years of civil war led to industry reforms known as the Kimberly Process certifying the origin of diamonds as "conflict free."
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Ghana: Committee on child labor in cocoa growing areas inaugurated at Agona Swedru |
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Agona Swedru, May 8, GNA - An 11-member committee has been inaugurated to work under the Agona West Municipal Programme for the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labor in Cocoa Growing Areas.
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Philippines: The world of RP’s 4 million child workers |
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“PROSTITUTION” to pay for school fees is just one of the many guises of children in the Philippine flesh trade.
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Pakistan: Hope for Pakistan's child workers |
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By Sarah Stuteville - Special to GlobalPost, May 12, 2009 , Pakistan (Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) — Sher Shah is a hard-working neighborhood — a confusing knot of cramped lanes offering up a riot of rattling power looms, puttering motors and booming furnaces.
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'Hungry children do not make good learners' |
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In the last year, Americans and Europeans have bought fewer cars. This has led to job losses among the migrant workers of Malawi who work in South African mines, where the materials for car parts are found. And one of the first responses of these workers has been to withdraw their children from school and send them to earn money, the charity Action Aid says.
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