Websites Related to Child Labor
International AgenciesUNICEF’s (home page) www.unicef.org UNICEF’s 1997 State of the World’s Children Report, on child labor http://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-icdc.org/store/ International Labor Organization, www.ilo.org ILO Washington office http://www.us.ilo.org/ The World Bank http://www.worldbank.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 (link to follow) 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)International Labor Affairs Bureau, of US Labor Department
The federal law governing child labor is the Fair Labor Standards Act, which was passed in 1938. States have child labor laws as well. State child labor officials http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF8guide.html
Activists and Activist GroupsAnti-Slavery International http://www.anti-slavery.org Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs http://www.afop.org Child Relief and You (CRY) http://www.cry.org/ Child Rights Information Network http://www.crin.org/ Child Workers in Asia http://www.cwa.tnet.co.th/ Childwatch International Research Network http://www.childwatch.uio.no The M.V. Foundation National Consumers League Child Labor Coalition
Kailash Satyarthi Inderjit Khurana The Global Campaign for Education http://www.campaignforeducation.org/ Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org Save the Children Federation http://www.savethechildren.org/ Radda Barnen the Swedish Save the Children Federation http://www.rb.se World Vision http://www.worldvision.org/worldvision/master.nsf/ 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
http://www.labornet.org Global online communication for a democratic, independent labor movement
BibliographiesLabors of Love Project (bibliography; articles and curriculum materials; links) www.childlabor.org Amnesty International list of resources on human rights, designed for teachers http://www.amnesty.org.uk/action/tan/resources.shtml Bibliography on street children Childwatch International Research Network resources: 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 UnionsAFL-CIO page on children and the global economy American Federation of Teachers child labor resource site International Federation of Free Trade Unions’ child labor page http://www.icftu.org/focus.asp?Issue=childlabour&Language=EN
JournalismBBC Children's Rights The New Heroes: New Internationalist, issue about child labor, No. 292, July 1997
Photography
ILO press photography collection (can be downloaded for free, for appropriate use) http://www.ilo.org/pubcgi/235photo.pl?keywords=child+labour Child Labor in Towns and Cities, photo essays in Changemakers.net, April, 2000 Stolen Dreams, book by photographer Dr. David Parker America from the Great Depression to World War II Historical Photographs of child labor in the United States, early 1900s, by Lewis Hine How The Other Half Lives, by Jacob Riis, about living conditions (including child labor) in New York City in 1890 http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
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