Child Labor

The History Place: Child Labor in America - Sixty photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Bureau.
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html

South Africa: Children's Constitutional Rights - The new Constitution gave children rights which they should use to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future.
http://www.pangaea.org/street_children/africa/safrica3.htm

Child Domestics: The World's Invisible Workers - A background article on child domestic labor, with a focus on abuse suffered by girls.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/10/africa8789.htm

Christian Morality: Issue on Child Labor - Tackles the issue on Child Labor especially in the Philippines, where an estimated 2 million children are compelled to work. It relates the problems caused by child labor, some analysis, and advocacy against the issue.
http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/relgroup/

Rugmark Foundation - A global nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in India, Nepal and Pakistan.
http://www.rugmark.org/

Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC) - A Malawi-based organization that provides information on child rights and child labour.
http://www.cridoc.net/

Child Labor Coalition - National US network for the exchange of information about child labor; providing a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation; and developing informational and educational outreach to the public and private sectors.
http://www.stopchildlabor.org/

Human Rights Watch - Child Labor - Includes information about bonded child labor and the international trafficking of children, and links to detailed reports.
http://www.hrw.org/about/projects/crd/child-labor.htm

cacao.ci - A site in French and English that documents the history and production of cocoa in the Ivory Coast, as well as initiatives to address the worst forms of child labor.
http://www.cacao.ci

Child Workers in Asia - CWA is a network of individuals involved in the child labour movement in various countries in Asia. Recognizing that the most effective way to create change is through grass-roots involvement and local advocacy, CWA has worked over the last ten years to foster the development of child focused non government organizations across Asia.
http://www.cwa.tnet.co.th/

Child Labor in Pakistan - Pakistan has recently passed laws greatly limiting child labor and indentured servitude, but those laws are universally ignored, and some 11 million children, aged four to fourteen, keep that country's factories operating, often working in brutal and squalid conditions. (Atlantic Monthly) <small>(February, 1996)</small>
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/pakistan/pakistan.htm

Child Labor links - Links to the Free the Children organization, the home page of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, The ILO's report on Child Labour Today: Facts and Figures, The ILO's photo essay on child labor.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EdModule/labor/childlabor.html

Child Labor and Society - This site seeks to move beyong just saying "child labor is wrong", to understand the social conditions that lead to children being forced to work.
http://www.sadashivan.com/

Free The Children - Addresses the issue of child labor in developing countries.
http://www.freethechildren.org/

How to Eliminate Child Labor - Essay about child labor and its relationship to economic development.
http://www.empereur.com/DOC/Child_Labor.html

Secret Child Labor in America - Fifty-nine years after Congress outlawed child labor in its most onerous forms, underage children still toil in fields and factories scattered across America.
http://hometown.aol.com/munmei/labor.html

Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador - Documents the situation of girls in El Salvador that work as domestics, a form of labor that makes them particularly vulnerable to physical abuse and sexual harassment.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0104/

What is Child Labor? - International Labour Organization definition of this subject, aimed for readers of all ages.
http://www.uniteunion.org/kids/child_labor.html

Stolen Dreams - Photographs by David Parker, MD, MPH, documenting child labor in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gallery/

Human Rights Watch: Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers - Reports on the dangerous conditions of child labor in US agriculture. Fact sheets, legislative action resources, news, and FAQs.
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/crp/farmchild/

Child Labor: Issues, Causes and Intervention - Working paper from the World Bank's Human Capital Development and Operations.
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/workp/wp_00056.html

Turning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation - A report on child labor in the sugarcane plantations of El Salvador.
http://hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/

Child Workers in Nepal - Site with extensive information on child labor in Nepal including a photo archive.
http://www.cwin.org.np/

North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks - Offers parents, employers, and educators a resource on assigning agricultural jobs to children 7 to 16 years of age.
http://www.nagcat.org/

Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations - Report by Human Rights Watch examines child banana workers in Ecuador as the victims of serious human rights abuses.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/ecuador/

Child Labor and The Global Village: Photography for Social Change - A team of 11 photographers who will be photographing the worlds of 11 child workers around the world. By photographing individual children within their families, communities, countries they hope to show behind the "child labor" label.
http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/

Global March Against Child Labor - Child labor condemns millions of children around the world to a life of servitude. Reports, papers and details of the Global March Against Child Labor which took place in 1998.
http://www.globalmarch.org

Helping Hands - A website exploring the complex problem of child-labor in India. Includes many pictures.
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/children/working/index.htm

Project Mala - An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.
http://www.projectmala.org.uk

Concerned For Working Children, Karnataka state, India - CWC works with local governments, community and working children themselves to implement viable, comprehensive, sustainable and appropriate solutions in partnership , so that children do not have to work.
http://www.workingchild.org/