Issue 37
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It's time to end slavery ... again!
It is said that there are twenty seven million slaves in the world in 2003. Many of them are children. Some are sex slaves. Some are victims of bonded labour and some are forced into being child soldiers.
 
Brazil's new president announces sweeping anti-slavery measures
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva plans more inspectors and an increase in the number of police raids on the ranches, mines and logging operations that use forced labour, as well as the imposition of criminal penalties and heavy fines for those who use forced labour. - anti-slavery.org
Former street children march for right to education
As an ILO survey shows 75% of child labourers to not attend school, former street children stage a peaceful demonstration in the Nairobi City Centre to demand immediate admission to schools and tertiary institutions. - The Nation
South Africa legislates to protect child workers
The Department of Labour is finalising a child labour policy that follows a survey revealing that 59% of South African were engaged in involuntary work to help support their family. - SABC
 
Child slavery in your chocolate
Hundreds of thousands of West African children are being purchased from their parents for a pittance, or in some cases outright stolen, and then shipped to the Ivory Coast, where they are sold as slaves to cocoa farms. - Foodrevolution.org
 
Our ignorance keeps child slaves from freedom
There's an urgent need for social scientists to investigate the extent of child slavery, and what's at play in the master-slave relationship, so that economic support, counseling and education can lead to stable, sustainable freedom. -
freetheslaves.net
 
 Antislavery.org
This site is from the UK-based Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights
organisation. It includes resources such as the script for a class or school assembly roleplay to raise awareness of bonded labour, and regularly updated news stories on child slavery.
 
Let the children come
"Once upon a time in a land so far away, the grown-ups told the children 'go'. But Jesus told them 'stay'. "Let the children come," he said. And drying up their tears he told them all God had made was wonderful and theirs. - (Trocaire 2002 Lenten Campaign Child Slavery Teacher's Resource)
 
It all starts today SBS, Friday 28 March, 10:00pm
A passionate film set in a poverty stricken town in Northern France, documenting a school teacher's struggle for fairness and justice against the local authorities in a social milieu where systemic unemployment and alcoholism has resulted in the neglect and abuse of the kindergarten children in his care.
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Caritas Latest
Staff from Caritas Australia arrived in the Solomon Islands Friday, August
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Mr Jack de Groot, National Director of Caritas Australia, said Caritas Australia supports the regional intervention in the Solomon Islands, while expressing caution that a blanket amnesty is not introduced which allows offenders to go unpunished.
Caritas Australia has released a position paper calling on the Australian government to rethink the proposal to ignore serious crimes committed in the Solomon Islands before its intervention commences.
"Justice is a precondition for permanent reconciliation and peace. Amnesties do not provide justice," Caritas Australia spokesman, Jamie Isbister, Acting National Director said today.
The paper also highlights the growing crisis caused by the increasing number of small arms concentrating in Melanesia, particularly in the Solomon Islands. See the Policy
The objectives of Australia's intervention in the Solomon Islands need to be clarified. For Australia's aims to be justifiable, there should be commitment to the Solomon Islanders which includes the elimination of guns and the flow of weapons, says the latest Caritas Policy brief.
See the Policy
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