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Us Issues Report On Child Labour
August 12, 2002 ·
The Labour Department released the first annual report on the worst forms of child labour in 143 trade beneficiary countries and territories as required under the Trade and Development Act of 2000. Under this act, trade beneficiary countries and territories are required to implement their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labour. […]
Read More...Philippines Time-Bound Program Agreement Signed
August 12, 2002 ·
US Deputy Under Secretary for International Labour Affairs Thomas B. Moorhead, Philippines Secretary of Labour Patricia Santo Tomas and Philippines Secretary of Education Raul Roco signed a collaborative agreement on a Timebound Program to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the Philippines. The agreement commits both countries to work together on a number […]
Read More...PHILIPPINES: Bill on Domestic Child Workers
August 12, 2002 ·
Visayan Forum Foundation (VF) an organisation that works with child domestic workers is close to a breakthrough on a landmark bill. This bill could make the difference to hundreds of thousands of exploited child and adult domestic workers throughout the Philippines. Child domestic workers in particular toil far from home at the expense of their […]
Read More...Prawn Units Stinks of Child Labour
August 4, 2002 ·
Kolkata, India — Cases of child labour exploitation have been reported from the coastal districts of West Bengal, Maharashtra and Orissa, where the children are being engaged in the prawn cultivation, processing and packaging industry. The Centre for Communication and Development (CCD), an NGO based near the city, has caught on video instances of child […]
Read More...Child Prostitution Widespread in Jamaica
August 2, 2002 ·
An ILO study on the worst forms of child labour in Jamaica has unearthed a disturbing practice of widespread prostitution by children, some as young as 10 years old, in six of the island’s 14 parishes. While the study did not state definitively how many children were involved in prostitution, the researchers said they consulted […]
Read More...AFRUCA Concerned over the Trafficking of African Children to the UK
August 1, 2002 ·
Anecdotal evidence suggests that increasingly African children are being brought into the UK as sources of cheap labour to work in the home and look after children, the Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA) shared. Children are brought in either by individuals or syndicates using false travel documents. They work long hours, are badly remunerated […]
Read More...UK and Irish police raid homes
July 1, 2002 ·
Operation Magenta (UK) The biggest ever operation against paedophiles who use the Internet was carried out recently when police simultaneously raided 75 homes across the country. Operation Magenta was the result of a six month investigation focussing on those using chat rooms to advertise and trade in child abuse images. Police believe that many of […]
Read More...CHILD PROSTITUTION 'GROWING PROBLEM'
April 20, 2002 ·
Wellington — New Zealand has a growing problem with child prostitution, trafficking, and pornography, according to a Justice Ministry report. This followed reports last year that girls as young as 11 were selling sex on Auckland streets, and a warning by a family law barrister in January that child pornography was reaching alarming levels. The […]
Read More...Smokers Addiction Enslave Children
April 20, 2002 ·
The tobacco industry, growers and trade unions have jointly launched a joint initiative to address the problem of child labour in tobacco growing. Supported by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the Eliminate Child Labour in Tobacco (ECLT) Foundation was officially launched in Geneva. British American Tobacco, is one of the three founding members of ECLT […]
Read More...Sport Players Enjoy Life on Backs of Child Workers
April 20, 2002 ·
Uluberia, West Bengal, India — The sheer exploitation of child labour is apparent when one visits Rajapur, a nondescript place in Uluberia, Howrah, where nearly one fifth of the children are employed to prepare shuttlecocks. They get meagre amounts in lieu of their hard work. Three to four new shuttlecock factories are coming up here […]
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