Len Morris remembers the experience of filming an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Fourteen-year-old Lesley Achieng, a new student at the Kenyan Schoolhouse program, recently wrote us a letter about her family circumstances and her excitement at being able to go to secondary school. While her adoptive family has been kind to take her in, she misses her siblings and her mom. “It is a fact that I am not a member of this family.”
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Alliance 8.7 and the world community aim to end the recruitment and use of children in war by 2025. Here’s how they’re thinking it could work.
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The interests of children need to be central to policy and decision-making. A White House Office for Children and Youth would give children a seat at the table.
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Houses of Joy in Costa Rica provide food security, child care and medical services for semi-nomadic indigenous Ngäbe-Buglé “trans-border migrant” families - a transformational alliance between governments, civil society and coffee farmers.
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The pandemic has forced an economic reset. Perhaps we will take the opportunity to create a world without child labor.
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24-year-old lawyer Amar Lal has seen and felt the pain of child labor. Strictly speaking, child labor runs in the family. In 2021, the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, Amar tells the ILO and world leaders that more needs to be done to end child labor entirely.
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Garment production in India shut down abruptly as a result of Covid 19. Multinational companies who skipped out on their obligations to pay for work already ordered made matters much worse. The Indian government appealed for employers to “be kind” to their desperate employees. Unfortunately, kindness is discretionary.
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When I met Mariela Montez, age ten, she was working with her father picking onions for a penny a pound outside Eagle Pass, Texas.
She had the flu and could barely speak. She had risen at 4am and would work twelve hours…
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Roy would say, about the behavior of men who put money first, " He wouldn't pay a nickel to see an ant eat a bale of hay."
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Twenty years of filming the effort to eradicate child labor culminates in the world premiere of Children of Bal Ashram this coming Thursday
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Media Voices for Children releases its latest documentary, Children of Bal Ashram. The world premiere of this film will be March 21st at The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.
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Two photographs - one hundred years apart. Child labor is still a reality in U.S. fields, due to a crucial loophole in the law.
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Ginning up the fears of his base, President Trump fantasizes about a caravan of asylum-seekers “invading” the country, a threat he is apparently prepared to meet by wasting the time and resources of active-duty military personnel. But who are these people really? Drug-dealers and murderers, or families fleeing gang violence?
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Media Voices is excited to announce sweeping updates to our website, as well as changes to our monthly newsletter proceedings.
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