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• News…

  
  Children — Authority: 120
  Report finds Haiti child slavery rampant Poverty has driven more than 225,000 children into positions as unpaid household servants across Haiti, the Pan American Development Foundation says in a report. Families unable to provide for the children send them to wealthier households to work, where some face mental and ...
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• Business could push to keep pressure off overseas child labor

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 118
  By Luke Engan, student, Georgetown University Law Center Business lobbyists could be revving up to oppose a ban on importing goods made with forced labor, child labor or prison labor, according to media reports that provoked alarm from Rachel Maddow and Stephen Colbert . Maddow slammed the businesses who would ...
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• Child labor behind White Christmas

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 145
  [IMG: http://notmytribe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/santa-little-helpers-child-labor-elves-slavery.jpg][IMG: http://notmytribe.com/?ak_action=api_record_view&id=13145&type=feed]
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• Virginia Child Labor

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 421
  Child labor is not just happening in the sweatshops of Asia. It is occurring right in the U.S., in the farm fields of Virginia and other states across the country. Child labor is illegal in the U.S. According to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), no child under 12 may work at any kind of job, including ...
  3 days ago

• God Who will free the Children ?

  
  BadGalsRadio - RootsRock since 99 — Authority: 123
  This is not the first time we’ve written about this problem; and it won’t be the last, sadly.  these children are the future; the change; the hope. why are they so abused and neglected when the world has nothing left, except them ? the story is the same globally – children pay the price for adults lack of ...
  5 days ago

• Tunnels Create A Link Between Egypt And Gaza

  
  All Articles About Everything Blog — Authority: 156
  In Gaza poverty shortages are customary. There is a demand for basic goods but they are in very small supply. Israel has positioned blockades around the borders Gaza shares with other countries. So one of the best ways to move materials into Gaza is through tunnels.In order to draw themselves out [...]
  6 days ago

• Open Casting Call For Next Coen Brothers Film: True Grit

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 170
  Whether it’s a corporate marketing ploy or the Coen brothers’ artistic choice (or both), Paramount Pictures is holding an open casting call for their next film, a remake of True Grit. The casting call will only be for the film’s young heroine, Mattie Ross. In the original, Mattie was played by Kim Derby, ...
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• Newspapers still exploit kids

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 475
  Kids don’t deliver newspapers in the inner cities anymore, so why did a 13-year-old boy just knock on my door to try to sell me a Pioneer Press subscription? He was from south Minneapolis so it’s not like he was working his own neighborhood. He said the PiPress people told him apartment buildings were good places ...
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• Take action TODAY to stop forced child labor in the cotton industry!

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 118
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Weve written a lot on this blog about the widespread use of forced child labor in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan.  Every year, the government of Uzbekistan removes thousands of children and teachers from school and forces them to pick cotton to ...
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• Lindsay Lohan rescues child laborers in India...or not

  
  Gadling — Authority: 698
  Filed under: Asia , India , News Looks like miss Lindsay Lohan has gone on a little "liecation" recently. The actress/singer/celebrity trainwreck posted a message on Twitter that made it sound like she personally took part in a raid that saved child laborers in India while there filming a documentary for ...
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• Wisconsin Child Labor

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 421
  Children as young as six years old are working in the farm fields of Wisconsin and elsewhere in the U.S. A team of graduate students recently conducted an undercover investigation that revealed regular violations of the child labor laws. Children, some of them age six, were regularly working beside their parents ...
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• Bangladesh Child Labor (with shocking pictures)

  
  Beer Steak Bullshit — Authority: 431
  I will admit with shame that I do own a piece of garment Made in Bangladesh . It was also purchased in one of the East Indian run clothes stores with low quality, albeit very cheap clothes available. It’s a pair of pants I bought there and feel ashamed now that I’ve looked up the info on child labor in ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Morrison Is Employing Boy 12 Years of Age"

  
  Appalachian History — Authority: 127
  Chattanooga Daily Times, December 12, 1915-- Mark Morrison, manager of Morrison’s, well known local drug firm, was arraigned yesterday before Esquire Kerby, charged with violating the child labor law, on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. O. D. Glenn, special investigator for the state. Mr. Morrison waived preliminary ...
  2 weeks ago

• Musings’ Friday Follies!

  
  Musings from the Moon — Authority: 120
  TGIF is here and so are Musings Friday Follies! Ya gotta rant about your boss? Your spouse? Your family or friends? Or maybe you just want to bitch about the world at large? Vent here! Ya gotta problem? A burden shared is half a burden! Ya gotta a couple of giggles to share? Laughter is the best medicine! Let it ...
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• Modern day child slaves–The lost children of Pakistan

  
  The Islamic Workplace — Authority: 420
  CNN.comThousands of Pakistani brick kilns use what human rights groups call child slaves. Please click here to watch the video clip from CNN.The Silent Scream — Child Labor Pakistan — Part 1The Silent Scream — Child Labor Pakistan — Part 2Street Children of Karachi–The Lost Souls– Part 1All facts and ...
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• Human Rights Day: December 10

  
  Fair Trade Sports | sustainable eco soccer balls and more — Authority: 410
  December 10th is known as Human Rights Day worldwide. The United Nations started Human Rights Day shortly after World War II as a way to help prevent the atrocities committed during the war from happening ever again. At this time, the General Assembly of the United Nations declared in the Universal Declaration of ...
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• Child labor in Bangladesh

  
  Shareordie — Authority: 138
  In the world of work used by 165 million children aged 5 to 14 years, of which 74 million are engaged in work that could be dangerous. Compared with other continents, child labor is most actively used in Asian countries. Despite the fact that over the past six years the number of minors who work [...]
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• Norfolk, VA Fair Trade Festival Spreads Awareness about Sweatfree Campaigns

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 118
  By Maggie Smith, Intern, International Labor Rights Forum Norfolk, VA was the stage of a two day Fair Trade Festival this past weekend, December 5th and 6th.  Continuing an eight year tradition, the festival was presented by Festevents and International Humanities Center. The Festival showcased dozens of local ...
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• Children’s Commission In India Take Effective Steps To Combat Child Labor

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 510
  Nilanjana Bhowmick - AHN India Correspondent New Delhi (AHN) - The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has been taking various steps to combat the menace of child labor, Indias minister for women and child development, Krishna Tirath said recently. The Commission has not only been playing an ...
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• Nestlé going Fair Trade for Kit Kat bars in UK and Ireland

  
  Labor is Not a Commodity — Authority: 118
  Tim Newman, Campaigns Director, International Labor Rights Forum Today Nestlé announced that it would achieve Fair Trade certification for its Kit Kat bar in the United Kingdom and Ireland in January 2010.  Many of you have joined us for many years in calling on Nestlé to purchase Fair Trade certified ...
  2 weeks ago

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