Recently, we had World Day Against Child Labor and unfortunately there’s little to celebrate.
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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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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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When the coronavirus hit Kenya, all schools closed abruptly. Kenyan Schoolhouse kids, from the poorest and most vulnerable of families, were sent home. To help provide emergency food aid, see gofundme.com/f/kenyan-schoolhouse-at-home. Len tells the story of Sylvie and the beginnings of Kenyan Schoolhouse.
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Twenty-two years since the Harkin-Engel Protocol, the absolute number of child laborers in cocoa has actually increased. Find out why. Maybe doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the problem?
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Two exhibitions featuring the work of Media Voices for Children open on Martha’s Vineyard and in Key West.
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A new interactive photo exhibit featuring the work of U.R. Romano examines the child labor hidden in the supply chains of popular products we all use.
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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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With the Presidential election in full-swing here are four things President Obama and the Congress can do to help children, now.
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House Resolution 2764 needs to be moved out of committee and brought up for a vote to protect children working in the fields in these United States.
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