The International Initiative on Exploitative Child Labor (IIECL), also commonly known as the International Initiative to End Child Labor, is a US-based, not-for-profit [US IRS approved 501 (c) (3)] organization, founded in 1998 and incorporated in 1999, that conducts and/or provides education, training, technical assistance, capacity building, research, social accountability auditing, resources, and evaluation services to public and private institutions and agencies, non-governmental organizations, and international programmatic institutions that seek to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in the United States and around the world.
http://endchildlabor.org/
Surviving in the Informal Economy
On Media Voices this week, we have a blog from Jina Krause-Vilmar, Senior Program Officer for Livelihoods with the Women’s Refugee Commission, on the difficulties and challenges faced by women and girls attempting to support their families in refugee camps. Food rations are often inadequate, and the women must supplement their family’s nutrition by working. [...]
Childhood Left Behind
Aryn Michelle’s song/video “Childhood Left Behind” was produced to promote the IIECL (International Initiative to End Child Labor) and to raise awareness about global child labor issues. For more info visit endchildlabor.org
