Links: Child Labor*
3-B (Charles Africa, and others),
"A Look at Child Labor in the Philippines." Includes page of
Statistics
Child Workers in Asia,
Homepage.
Includes a list of
References
and links to
Related
Sites.
CNN,
"Buying the Freedom of Slaves in Sudan," Dec. 20, 1997.
ELAC (Environmental Legal Assistance Centre),
"Ban Paaling Campaign," deals with a fishing practice in the
Philippines
that uses young boys as slaves.
Human Rights Watch,
"Child Labor".
ILO Press Release,
"Child Labour Persists Around the World: More than
13 Percent of Children 10-14 Are Employed," June 10, 1996.
ILO Press Release,
"Amsterdam Conference Targets Child Slavery, Trafficking,
Prostitution and Other Intolerable Forms of Child Labour," Feb 25,
1997.
ILO Report,
"Child Labour in Commerical Agriculture in Africa," Aug. 30, 1996.
Includes case studies
and a chart at the end reporting hazards facing children who work in
commercial agriculture.
National Consumers League,
"State Survey Shows Weaknesses in U.S. Child Labor Enforcement",
summary of a 1997 survey done by the Child Labor Coalition in 1997.
Covers illegal and/or compusory child labor in the U.S. Includes links to
additional information on child labor.
UNICEF, site on
"Child Labour."
U.S. Department of Labor,
"The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A Solution to the
International Child Labor Problem?"
U.S. Department of Labor,
International Child Labor Program
Homepage.
Includes President Clinton's
executive order 13126
"Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured
Child Labor."
YMCA, ECPAT, and UNICEF,
"Child Prostitution: The Ultimate Abuse,"
report on the National Consultation on Child Prostitution, Nov. 18-20,
1995, New Delhi.
*Most of these links were found for me by Drew Foster, in a project that
he
did for my course in International Economics. Thanks, Drew!