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Child Labor: Issues and Directions for the World Bank -- Contents
This paper proposes that the World Bank take stronger action - and outlines what to do and how - to help address the issue more pro-actively, partnering with others who share a similar concern about the damage to children, their development, and their society's development.
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/HDNet/HDdocs.nsf/f879b8f845ed3915852566500051f549/e4bcc001dba99537852566b1000a86fa?OpenDocument
Human Rights Watch - Child Labor
Includes information about bonded child labor and the international trafficking of children, and links to detailed reports.
http://www.hrw.org/about/projects/crd/child-labor.htm
Free The Children
Addresses the issue of child labor in developing countries.
http://www.freethechildren.org/
South Africa: Children's Constitutional Rights
The new Constitution gave children rights which they should use to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future.
http://www.pangaea.org/street_children/africa/safrica3.htm
Child Labor: Issues, Causes and Intervention
Working paper from the World Bank's Human Capital Development and Operations.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/workp/wp_00056.html
Child Labor links
Links to the Free the Children organization, the home page of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, The ILO's report on Child Labour Today: Facts and Figures, The ILO's photo essay on child labor.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EdModule/labor/childlabor.html
Child Labor and The Global Village: Photography for Social Change
A team of 11 photographers who will be photographing the worlds of 11 child workers around the world. By photographing individual children within their families, communities, countries they hope to show behind the "child labor" label.
http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/
What is Child Labor?
International Labour Organization definition of this subject, aimed for readers of all ages.
http://www.uniteunion.org/kids/child_labor.html
Child Labor and Society
This site seeks to move beyong just saying "child labor is wrong", to understand the social conditions that lead to children being forced to work.
http://members.tripod.com/~sadashivan_nair/childlabourandsociety/index.html
Child Workers in Nepal
Site with extensive information on child labor in Nepal including a photo archive.
http://www.cwin-nepal.org/
Human Rights Watch: Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers
Reports on the dangerous conditions of child labor in US agriculture. Fact sheets, legislative action resources, news, and FAQs.
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/farmchild/
Stolen Dreams
Photographs by David Parker, MD, MPH, documenting child labor in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gallery/
Rugmark Foundation
A global nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in India, Nepal and Pakistan.
http://www.rugmark.org/
Child Labor Coalition
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.
http://www.stopchildlabor.org/
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
United Nations program tracking child labor.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/policy/index.htm
People's Institute of Rural Development
Indian based campaign against child labour.
http://education.vsnl.com/pird
The Campaign to End Child Labor
Documentary history of the first decades of the campaign to end child labor in the U.S., with contemporary photographs, political cartoons, poems, essays and books.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/index.html
How to Eliminate Child Labor
Essay about child labor and its relationship to economic development.
http://www.empereur.com/DOC/Child_Labor.html
Project Mala
An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.
http://www.projectmala.org.uk
Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations
Report by Human Rights Watch examines child banana workers in Ecuador as the victims of serious human rights abuses.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/ecuador/
Helping Hands
A website exploring the complex problem of child-labor in India. Includes many pictures.
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/children/working/index.htm
Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador
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.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0104/
Children of Stung Meanchey
Seeks to eliminate child labor at the Stung Meanchey landfill site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
http://www.the-children.org/
Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC)
A Malawi-based organization that provides information on child rights and child labour.
http://www.cridoc.net/
Secret Child Labor in America
Fifty-nine years after Congress outlawed child labor in its most onerous forms, underage children still toil in fields and factories scattered across America.
http://hometown.aol.com/munmei/labor.html
Global March Against Child Labor
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.
http://www.globalmarch.org
Christian Morality: Issue on Child Labor
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.
http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/relgroup
Concerned For Working Children, Karnataka state, India
CWC works with local governments, community and working children themselves to implement viable, comprehensive, sustainable and appropriate solutions in partnership , so that children do not have to work.
http://www.workingchild.org/
Child Workers in Asia
CWA is a network of individuals involved in the child labour movement in various countries in Asia. Recognizing that the most effective way to create change is through grass-roots involvement and local advocacy, CWA has worked over the last ten years to foster the development of child focused non government organizations across Asia.
http://www.cwa.tnet.co.th/
Child Labor in 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)
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/pakistan/pakistan.htm
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