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Major Child Labor-Related Sites
UNICEF
UNICEF's home page has up-to-date information about activities on child1
labor, as well as the related areas of education, health, and nutrition. UNICEF's
"State of the World's Children"
Report (1997) concentrates on child1 labor. UNICEF headquarters does not
have all documents generated with UNICEF sponsorship in all languages. Contact
local UNICEF offices directly. UNICEF's Innocenti
Research Center in Bellagio, Italy, has several useful publications on child1
labor.
INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION (ILO)
Membership: governments, business, and trade unions. Founded in 1919 to, among
other things, end child1 labor. International Program on the Elimination of Child
Labor (IPEC), an office of the ILO, started in 1992. The International Labor
Office in Geneva, also frequently referred to as the ILO, is the ILO secretariat.
Country and regional offices are called International Labor Offices, such as
the ILO in Washington, DC. ILO conventions
and accompanying recommendations are unenforceable international standards.
Several pertain to child1 labor. The latest: Convention 182, adopted in 1992,
calls for action against the worst forms of child1 labor. An accompanying list
of recommendations suggests ways to tackle the problem. (To find these, go to
the ILO home page, click on "Conventions and Recommendations", and
follow the directions.)
THE
WORLD BANK
See research papers on child1 labor.
CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE
CHILD (CRC)
Adopted in 1989 by the United Nations General Assembly, the CRC is the
most widely ratified international convention in history. The United States,
and Somalia have not ratified it Its provisions have been adopted by Unicef
as a guide to action. Many countries and international agencies are struggling
over how to put the CRC into practice. The convention's central principles are:
non-discrimination; the best interests of the child1; child1 survival and development;
and the participation of children.
International
Labor Bureau of the US Labor Department
See information on child1 labor in United States imports, and other child1 labor
reports.
Fair
Labor Standards Act
US law governing child1 labor, passed in 1938.
State
laws vary on minimum wage. This site also lays out requirements for official
permission papers for child1 workers; regulation of child1 entertainers; age
at which children can sell door-to-door; etc.
Anti-Slavery International
U.K.-based ASI has been working against slavery since
the 19th century.
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
Works to reduce child1 labor in agriculture. The Fair Labor Standards Act protects
children in agriculture less than in other occupations, and AFOP is lobbying
for changes in the FLSA to improve protections for children.
Child
Relief and You (CRY)
Supports programs for children in India.
Child Rights Information Network
Based
in Switzerland, membership-driven organization and network of over 1,000 child1
rights organizations around theworld. Strives to improve the lives of children
through the exchange of information about child1 rights and the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child.
Child Workers in Asia
A network of organizations working with child1 workers in Asia. Site includes
articles by network members on a variety of topics (e.g., domestic workers,
the Asian economic crisis and child1 labor, etc.). Extensive bibliography of
academic and other articles on child1 labor in Pacific/Asian countries.
Childwatch International Research
Network
Based in Norway, conducts research at different levels,
on various topics and with a variety of target groups.Members include 29 key
organizations.
Concerned
for Working Children
Works with working children in Karnataka, India, including Bhima Sangha, a union
of working children
M.V.
Foundation
Nonprofit organization working in India to end child1 labor.
National Consumers League
The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America's pioneer consumerorganization.
A member of the Child Labor Coalition.
Global March Against Child Labor
Started by Kailash Satyarthi,
an activist in India, to mobilize international opinion against child1 labor.
Sathyarthi has been honored many times for his work. Most notably, he has received
the Robert
F. Kennedy Memorial award. The Global March is now part of a coalition working
to increase access to education, the
Global Campaign for Education.
Human
Rights Watch
An international organization that produces independently researched reports
on many human rights issues. Among many reports on child-related issues: In
July 2000, HRW published a report on abusive child1 labor in US agriculture.
International Labor Rights Fund
Washington, DC-based nonprofit action and advocacy organization which uses new
and creative means to encourage enforcement of international labor rights.
Radda
Barnen
Swedish Save the Children Federation operates programs to help child1 laborers,
and conducts research. Radda Barnen has published Methods
of Research with Street and Working Children: An Annotated Bibliography
by Judith Ennew and Brian Milne. The bibliography begins with a quote
from street children in Bangalore:"How will this study help us? So many
people have come and talked to us. But what have they done for us?"
World
Vision
International Christian humanitarian organization serving the world's poor and
displaced by providing programs that help save lives, bring hope, and restore
dignity. This assistance is provided without regard to people's religious beliefs,
gender, or ethnic background.
Street Children
Includes page memorializing
street children who have died.
Free
the Children
Started in 1995 by Craig Keilburger, who was shocked when he heard about the
death of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani boy who had escaped from bonded labor and
had become an activist against child1 labor. Masih was shot to death in Pakistan
in 1995.
A
Bullet Can't Kill A Dream
The students at Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, Mass., had met Iqbal
Masih (see above) in 1994, and were shocked when a few months later the Pakistani
boy was shot to death near his home village. The Quincy school kids started
a web site about child1 labor through which they raised money for a school in
Pakistan.
Radda
Barnen
Swedish Save the Children Federation operates programs to help child1 laborers,
and conducts research. Radda Barnen has published Methods
of Research with Street and Working Children: An Annotated Bibliography
by Judith Ennew and Brian Milne. The bibliography begins with a quote
from street children in Bangalore:"How will this study help us? So many
people have come and talked to us. But what have they done for us?"
Children
and and Prostitution
Annotated bibliography.
Child
Workers in Asia
Bibliographic references to articles and books about child1 labor in Asia.
Children as Social Actors: A Bibliography
Compiled by the Economic and Social Research Council
Street
Children
Includes page memorializing
street children who have died.
American
Federation of Teachers (AFT)
AFT child1 labor project.
International
Federation of Free Trade Unions
Child labor page
BBC
World Service -- Children in Conflict
Child labor and child1 soldiers.
Changemakers.net
The journal of the Ashoka Foundation, which contains stories about Ashoka fellows
working on children's issues.
Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change
International team of photojournalists and writers.
Human Rights News Group
Contains selected stories about child1 labor, including stories about child1 labor
in the United States written by the Associated Press in 1997.
New Internationalist, No. 292, July 1997, issue on Child Labor
Good overview of issues.
The
Atlantic Monthly
1996 story about child1 labor in Pakistan.
UNICEF
"success story" about primary schools in China
UNICEF "success story" about children on streets of Mongolia
UNICEF "success story" about bonded laborers in Nepal
Other stories about child1 labor are listed on the Newsletter
Archive page of this website.
Child
Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change
International team of photojournalists and writers.
See also the Images page
of this website.