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Child Labor Booms Among Iraqi Refugees in Syria http://tinyurl.com/ycrqezg #iraq
uruknet (uruknet) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 02:21:17 -0000
Child Labor Booms Among Iraqi Refugees in Syria http://tinyurl.com/ycrqezg #iraq
RT @Free_2_Work: Christmas "It" Toy Zhu Zhu Hamster Gets a D- on Child Labor based on #F2W standard: http://tinyurl.change.org/Rvvet
nicolai_maersk (nicolai_maersk) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:49:20 -0000
RT @Free_2_Work: Christmas "It" Toy Zhu Zhu Hamster Gets a D- on Child Labor based on #F2W standard: http://tinyurl.change.org/Rvvet
Christmas "It" Toy Zhu Zhu Hamster Gets a D- on Child Labor based on #F2W standard: http://tinyurl.change.org/Rvvet
Free_2_Work (Free2Work Campaign) Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:08:44 -0000
Christmas "It" Toy Zhu Zhu Hamster Gets a D- on Child Labor based on #F2W standard: http://tinyurl.change.org/Rvvet
RT @TheMediaLine: Child Labor Booms Among Iraqi Refugees in Syria http://bit.ly/82Vz4g
SamiaQ (Samia Qumri★) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:45:46 -0000
RT @TheMediaLine: Child Labor Booms Among Iraqi Refugees in Syria http://bit.ly/82Vz4g
New lawsuit alleges child labor and exploitation in totalitarian Scientology compound http://tinyurl.com/yf57brg
religiousabuse (Religious Abuse) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:39:24 -0000
New lawsuit alleges child labor and exploitation in totalitarian Scientology compound http://tinyurl.com/yf57brg
This lil girl done messed up ma floor! Imma go to jail for child labor!!
TikaGold (Trudy Smith) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:14:57 -0000
This lil girl done messed up ma floor! Imma go to jail for child labor!!

 

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Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador - Documents the situation of girls in El Salvador that work as domestics, a form of labor that makes them particularly vulnerable to physical abuse and sexual harassment.

cacao.ci - A site in French and English that documents the history and production of cocoa in the Ivory Coast, as well as initiatives to address the worst forms of child labor.
Meta Description: [ Droit et protection de l\'enfant. PPSSTE lutte contre travail, exploitation, trafic des enfants en promouvant norme, responsabilité sociale. Offre certification système production cacao. Cote d\'ivoire. ]

Child Camel Jockeys - Provides information on efforts to end the practice of using children as camel jockeys. New laws, news, and information on the Ansar Burney Trust.
Meta Description: [ cameljockeys.org ]

Child Domestics: The World's Invisible Workers - A background article on child domestic labor, with a focus on abuse suffered by girls.
Meta Description: [ Child domestic workers are nearly invisible among child laborers. They work alone in individual households, hidden from public scrutiny, their lives controlled by their employers. Child domestics, nearly all girls, work long hours for little or no pay. Many have no opportunity to go to school, or... ]

Child Labor and Society - This site seeks to move beyong just saying child labor is wrong, to understand the social conditions that lead to children being forced to work.

Child Labor and The Global Village: Photography for Social Change - A team of 11 photographers who will be photographing the worlds of 11 child workers around the world. By photographing individual children within their families, communities, countries they hope to show behind the child labor label.
Meta Description: [ Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change is a project of the Tides Center and Julia Dean & Associates ]

Child Labor Coalition - National US network for the exchange of information about child labor; providing a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation; and developing informational and educational outreach to the public and private sectors.

Child Labor in Pakistan - Pakistan has recently passed laws greatly limiting child labor and indentured servitude, but those laws are universally ignored, and some 11 million children, aged four to fourteen, keep that country's factories operating, often working in brutal and squalid conditions. (Atlantic Monthly)
Meta Description: [ Pakistan has recently passed laws greatly limiting child labor and indentured servitude—but those laws are universally ignored, and some 11 milion children, aged four to fourteen, keep that country's factories operating, often working in brutal and squalid conditions ]

Child Labor links - Links to the Free the Children organization, the home page of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, The ILO's report on Child Labour Today: Facts and Figures, The ILO's photo essay on child labor.

404 Child Labor: Issues and Directions for the World Bank -- Contents - This paper proposes that the World Bank take stronger action - and outlines what to do and how - to help address the issue more pro-actively, partnering with others who share a similar concern about the damage to children, their development, and their society's development.

Child Labor: Issues, Causes and Intervention - Working paper from the World Bank's Human Capital Development and Operations.

Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC) - A Malawi-based organization that provides information on child rights and child labour.
Meta Description: [ Child Rights Information and Documentation Center (CRIDOC) is a project run by AECL which provides information of Child Rights and Child Labour ]

Child Workers in Asia - CWA is a network of individuals involved in the child labour movement in various countries in Asia. Recognizing that the most effective way to create change is through grass-roots involvement and local advocacy, CWA has worked over the last ten years to foster the development of child focused non government organizations across Asia.

Child Workers in Nepal - Site with extensive information on child labor in Nepal including a photo archive.
Meta Description: [ This site is the official Homepage of CWIN, a national Child Rights NGO in Nepal. ]

Concerned For Working Children, Karnataka state, India - CWC works with local governments, community and working children themselves to implement viable, comprehensive, sustainable and appropriate solutions in partnership , so that children do not have to work.

Free The Children - Addresses the issue of child labor in developing countries.

Global March Against Child Labor - Child labor condemns millions of children around the world to a life of servitude. Reports, papers and details of the Global March Against Child Labor which took place in 1998.
Meta Description: [ The Global March Against Child Labour is a movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful to ... ]

Helping Hands - A website exploring the complex problem of child-labor in India. Includes many pictures.
Meta Description: [ Kamat's Potpourri: Children of Asphalt - The Working Children of India ]

How to Eliminate Child Labor - Essay about child labor and its relationship to economic development.
Meta Description: [ Child Labor Page provides information about Child lobor situation in The World today, events, research, reports, recent political sites available on the Internet, with links to Organizations, Governments and Media. ]

Human Rights Watch - Child Labor - Includes information about bonded child labor and the international trafficking of children, and links to detailed reports.
Meta Description: [ Resource page Child Labor describing work of the Children's Rights Division of the Human Rights Watch. The Children's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch has largely focussed its efforts on forced and bonded child labor, which has a devastating impact on children. Children who work long hours, ... ]

Human Rights Watch: Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers - Reports on the dangerous conditions of child labor in US agriculture. Fact sheets, legislative action resources, news, and FAQs.
Meta Description: [ Special Focus page describing key findings from human rights watch report 'Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers', June 2000 ]

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour - United Nations program tracking child labor.
Meta Description: [ The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) works for the progressive elimination of child labour worldwide, emphasising the eradication of the worst forms as rapidly as possible. It works to achieve this in several ways: through country-based programmes which promote p... ]

North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks - Offers parents, employers, and educators a resource on assigning agricultural jobs to children 7 to 16 years of age.
Meta Description: [ Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) ]

404 People's Institute of Rural Development - Indian based campaign against child labour.

Project Mala - An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.
Meta Description: [ Project Mala - An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. Help us by sponsoring a child through school. ]

Rugmark Foundation - A global nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in India, Nepal and Pakistan.

Secret Child Labor in America - Fifty-nine years after Congress outlawed child labor in its most onerous forms, underage children still toil in fields and factories scattered across America.

South Africa: Children's Constitutional Rights - The new Constitution gave children rights which they should use to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future.

Stolen Dreams - Photographs by David Parker, MD, MPH, documenting child labor in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India.
Meta Description: [ Virtual gallery of photographs by David Parker, MD, MPH, on child labor in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India based upon the book Stolen Dreams. ]

500 Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations - Report by Human Rights Watch examines child banana workers in Ecuador as the victims of serious human rights abuses.

The Campaign to End Child Labor - Documentary history of the first decades of the campaign to end child labor in the U.S., with contemporary photographs, political cartoons, poems, essays and books.
Meta Description: [ Jim Zwick's books on Mark Twain and anti-imperialism, web sites, biography, and how to contact him. ]

The History Place: Child Labor in America - Sixty photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Bureau.
Meta Description: [ 60 photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Beareau. ]

500 Turning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation - A report on child labor in the sugarcane plantations of El Salvador.

What is Child Labor? - International Labour Organization definition of this subject, aimed for readers of all ages.
Meta Description: [ Welcome UNITE HERE's website. UNITE HERE represents members across North America who work in apparel, retail, laundry, distribution centers, hotels, restaurants, cafeterias, casinos, schools, airports, bus terminals, concession food service, on trains and in many other establishments. ]