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Child Labor

Sierra Leone: Living Off Scraps

Posted to the web 6 October 2008 Lansana Fofana Freetown Each morning, Mariama Kamara and her two teenaged sons walk to Freetown's main rubbish dump. The family is crowded into a rented two-bedroom shack located in one of...

Uganda: Karamoja Grapples With Child Trafficking

Posted to the web 6 October 2008 Richard Otim Soroti Ms Maria Nakiru, a 13 year old Karimojong girl from Lokopo, Bokora County in Moroto district left her parents two years ago in search of anything to do for a living. Ms...

Uzbekistan to monitor use of child labour during cotton harvest - website

Uzbekistan to monitor use of child labour during cotton harvest - websiteMonday , 06 October 2008The Uzbek authorities will carry out monitoring in regions to ensure that secondary schoolchildren are not forced to bring in the...

NGO supports 100 children

Senya Beraku (C/R), Oct 6, GNA - Rescue Foundation Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) has donated school items worth 6,000 U.S dollars to 100 high risk children in eight communities in Senya Bereku. Beneficiary...

Committee on rights of child concludes forty-ninth session

Maandag 6 oktober 2008 | United Nations (UN) ] The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its forty-ninth session, issuing its conclusions and recommendations on the situation of children in Djibouti, Bhutan and...

Offside: Child labour rampant in football stitching

National,Sports, Mon, 06 Oct 2008 IANS New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Next time you take to playfield and kick a football, remember that in all possibility it was created by tender yet wounded pair of hands in an obscure village in...

Peru: Morning News Roundup - Monday October 6

Peru children demand right to work, end to exploitation Child labour may be condemned as a gross abuse of human rights, but in Peru children are demanding their right to lawful employment as an alternative to labour...

Peru children demand right to work, end to exploitation

Lima, Oct 6 (EFE) Child labour may be condemned as a gross abuse of human rights, but in Peru children are demanding their right to lawful employment as an alternative to labour exploitation, arguing if poverty persists, so...

Meeting on child labour problems

VIRUDHUNAGAR: The Central Board for Workers’ Education, Ministry of Labour and Employment, organised a meeting on “Child Labour Problems and Perspectives” here on Tuesday. Over 200 participants of National Child Labour ...

India's children still put to work, two years after law change (AFP)

by Tripti Lahiri 26 minutes ago NEW DELHI (AFP) - Kumar said he had been working full-time for three months, even though he is two years below the minimum age for employees in homes, hotels and restaurants, as set by a key 2006...