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250 million of the world's 2 billion children don't have time to have a childhood. They have to work. They work because they can move their family from hunger to survival. Their parents are often unemployed and desperate for a decent job but the children are offered the jobs because they are a cheap and easily exploited source of labour. Education is often too expensive and under-resourced, forcing children and their parents to choose between education and work.
The World Day Against Child Labour is held on June 12. It's a day to
focus world attention on the urgent need to eradicate child labour.
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Ghana’s child labour situation improves - human rights activist
A human rights advocate and lawyer, Nana Oye Lithur, has indicated that Ghana 's child labour situation has improved in line with a recent International Labour Organization (ILO) report that also indicated a decrease by 11% in child labour worldwide over the last four years. The Ghanian Chronicle , 2nd June 2006
Zara put on the back foot over Portuguese child labour claim
Zara has become the latest retailer to be dogged by child labour allegations, after reports that Portuguese children as young as 11 are being paid just €20 (£13.70) a day to make shoes bearing the Spanish fashion chain’s brand. Inditex, Zara’s parent company, said that it had started an investigation into the “extremely grave” accusation that one of its sub-contractors is paying the children 20 cents to sew the interior of a shoe.
The Times Online,
1st June 2006
Italy smashes child slavery network
Police in Italy have smashed a criminal network that exploited hundreds of children from impoverished families in Bulgaria, forcing them to work as modern-day Oliver Twists. The People’s Daily Online, 31st May 2006
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Hundreds of child slaves sold into UK every year
Children as young as six are being brought to Britain in their hundreds every year to be used as “slave labour” in sweatshops, private homes and cannabis factories. The children are transported from all over Africa, Asia and eastern Europe by ruthless and highly organised gangs of traffickers. The Sunday Telegraph, 4th June 2006
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Child labour fears
The US-led Coalition Provision Authority, which governed Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime three years ago, made it illegal for Iraqi children under the age of 15 to work. But child labour remains common and may be on the rise once again, because the country's conflict is hindering economic development, experts say.Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 20th April 2006
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Global March Against Child Labour
Did you know that in the shadows of your favourite soccer games, there are many children spending their childhood stitching footballs at the cost of their education? Find out how you can become more involved in the Global March Against Child Labour.
www.globalmarch.org
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World Day Against Child Labour
The focus of this year’s World Day Against Child Labour is on the findings of the recently released International Labour Organisation report The end of child labour: within reach. This report documents the fact that there has been a major shift in the progress on the movement to end child labour.
www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/
wdacl/2006/index.htm
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Long journey, young lives
This online documentary provides an intimate insight into child refugees, their experiences and journeys. From the violence and danger of their homeland, to their perilous journey and detention in Australia , young refugees present an uninhibited account of their experiences. It can be viewed online via Broadband, Dialup or in HTML format.
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"Child labour has serious consequences that stay
with the individual and with society for far longer than the years
of childhood. Young workers not only face dangerous working conditions.
They face long term physical, intellectual and emotional stress.
They face an adulthood of unemployment and illiteracy." United
Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
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ENDORSED BY CARITAS AUSTRALIA.
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Caritas Australia’s response in East Timor
Since the recent period of unrest started at the end of April, over 12,000 people have fled their homes. Many have taken refuge in Churches, convents and other Catholic institutions. Caritas Australia is providing displaced families with clothing, bedding, hygiene kits and specific children’s materials. Find out more.
Caritas supporting victims of Indonesia earthquake
The Caritas Internationalis network already have staff members on the ground in Yogyakarta, enabling a quick response to assist the earthquake victims. The initial Caritas response to the earthquake has involved the use of the local Catholic network, including the use of Church buildings as temporary refuges for the many displaced survivors and providing the people with food, non-food items and first aid assistance. |
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Child Labour
