Directory of Child Labor Resources

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• Child Slavery
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Resources in This Category

• Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador

  http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0104/
  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.

• Child Labor Coalition

  http://www.stopchildlabor.org/
  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.

• Child Labor in Pakistan

  http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199602/pakistan
  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)

• Christian Morality: Issue on Child Labor

  http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/relgroup/
  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.

• Free The Children

  http://www.freethechildren.com/
  Addresses the issue of child labor in developing countries.

• Global March Against Child Labor

  http://www.globalmarch.org/
  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.

• GoodWeave

  http://www.goodweave.org/
  A global nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in South Asia.

• Helping Hands

  http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/children/working/index.htm
  A website exploring the complex problem of child-labor in India. Includes many pictures.

• North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks

  http://www.nagcat.org/
  Offers parents, employers, and educators a resource on assigning agricultural jobs to children 7 to 16 years of age.

• Project Mala

  http://www.projectmala.org.uk/
  An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.

• South Africa: Children's Constitutional Rights

  http://www.pangaea.org/street_children/africa/safrica3.htm
  The new Constitution gave children rights which they should use to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future.

• Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations

  http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/ecuador/
  Report by Human Rights Watch examines child banana workers in Ecuador as the victims of serious human rights abuses.

• The History Place: Child Labor in America

  http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
  Sixty photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Bureau.

• Turning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation

  http://hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/
  A report on child labor in the sugarcane plantations of El Salvador.

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