Wednesday 14 March 2012

Websites Related to Child Labor


Websites Related to Child Labor

International Agencies

UNICEF’s (home page) www.unicef.org
UNICEF’s 1997 State of the World’s Children Report, on child laborhttp://www.unicef.org/sowc97/
Other UNICEF publications on child labor available from Innocenti Research Center in Bellagio, Italy (publications on child labor) http://www.unicef-irc.org/
International Labor Organization, www.ilo.org
ILO Washington office http://www.us.ilo.org/
UNESCO publishes some reports and studies related to child labor (do a Search for "child labor" on the UNESCO site) http://www.unesco.org


International standards, set by conventions:

ILO conventions 138, 182, and others available from www.ilo.org
The 1989 International Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.unicef.org/crc/
International conventions and standards related to child soldiers, Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers site (http://www.child-soldiers.org/)

United States

(National And State Governments)


U.S. politicians who have shaped policy and U.S. budgets on child labor include Sen. Tom Harkin. Find information about bills concerning child labor by searching on "child labor" on the Library of Congress’ Thomas site (http://thomas.loc.gov/)
The federal law governing child labor is the Fair Labor Standards Act, which was passed in 1938. States have child labor laws as well.


Activists And Activist Groups

Anti-Slavery International www.antislavery.org/
Child Relief and You (CRY) http://www.cry.org/
Childwatch International Research Network http://www.childwatch.uio.no
The M.V. Foundation
http://www.mvfindia.in/
Ruchika Social Service Organization ruchika.org
The Global Campaign for Education http://www.campaignforeducation.org/
Save the Children Federation http://www.savethechildren.org/
Radda Barnen the Swedish Save the Children Federation http://www.rb.se
National Coalition for Haitian Rights http://www.nchr.org/hrp/restavek/haiti_insight3.htm
Foyer Maurice Sixto (French) http://www.haiticulture.ch/Restavek.html

Activists And Activist Groups (Kids)

Free the Children http://www.freethechildren.org

A Bullet Can’t Kill A Dream, project started by Broad Meadows Middle School students in Quincy, Mass. http://www.mirrorimage.com/iqbal

http://www.labornet.org Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement


Bibliographies

Labors of Love Project (bibliography; articles and curriculum materials; links)www.childlabor.org
Amnesty International www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International USA www.Amnestyusa.org
Childwatch International Research Network resources:
http://childhouse.uio.no/
Child Workers in Asia site has bibliographic references to articles and books about child labor in Asia (http://www.cwa.tnet.co.th/)
Children as Social Actors bibliography compiled by Economic and Social Research Council (http://www.hull.ac.uk/children5to16programme/biblio.htm)

Trade Unions

AFL-CIO page on children and the global economy
http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/globaleconomy/children/
American Federation of Teachers child labor resource site
http://www.aft.org/topics/international/child-labor/resources.htm
International Federation of Free Trade Unions’ child labor pagehttp://www.icftu.org/focus.asp?Issue=childlabour&Language=EN


Journalism

The New Heroes:
see stories about Inderjit Khurana and Kailash Satyarthi
http://www.pbs.org/opb/thenewheroes/
New Internationalist, issue about child labor, No. 292, July 1997
http://www.newint.org/issue292/content.html


Photography

America from the Great Depression to World War II
Photography of the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information Collection (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fahome.html
Historical Photographs of child labor in the United States, early 1900s, by Lewis Hine
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/207-b.html
Before Their Time: The World of Child Labor, by David L. Parker
http://www.childlaborphotographs.com
Child Labor in Towns and Cities, photo essays in Changemakers.net, April, 2000
http://www.changemakers.net/studio/00april/jarman2.cfm


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