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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.
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A background article on child domestic labor, with a focus on abuse suffered by girls.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Working paper from the World Bank's Human Capital Development and Operations.
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A Malawi-based organization that provides information on child rights and child labour.
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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.
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CWIN, a national Child Rights NGO in Nepal, has extensive programs for street and working children. Reports and photos.
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Tackles the issue on Child Labor especially in the Philippines, where an estimated 2 million children are compelled to work. It relates the problems caused by child labor, some analysis, and advocacy against the issue.
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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.
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Description of programs dedicated toward eliminating the exploitation of children around the world, by encouraging children to volunteer in and create programs and activities that relieve the plight of underprivileged children.
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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.
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A website exploring the complex problem of child-labor in India. Includes many pictures.
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Essay about child labor and its relationship to economic development.
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Includes information about bonded child labor and the international trafficking of children, and links to detailed reports.
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Reports on the dangerous conditions of child labor in US agriculture. Fact sheets, legislative action resources, news, and FAQs.
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Offers parents, employers, and educators a resource on assigning agricultural jobs to children 7 to 16 years of age.
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An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.
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A global nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in India, Nepal and Pakistan.
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Fifty-nine years after Congress outlawed child labor in its most onerous forms, underage children still toil in fields and factories scattered across America.
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The new Constitution gave children rights which they should use to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future.
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Photographs by David Parker, MD, MPH, documenting child labor in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India.
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Report by Human Rights Watch examines child banana workers in Ecuador as the victims of serious human rights abuses.
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Sixty photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Bureau.
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A report on child labor in the sugarcane plantations of El Salvador.
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International Labour Organization definition of this subject, aimed for readers of all ages.
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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.
