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Child Slavery 8
India 6
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Advocacy Groups - Children, Youth and Family, Issues, Society 176
Child Soldiers - Children, Youth and Family, Issues, Society 20
Labor Movement - Work, Society 190
 Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El SalvadorAbuses 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.
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Child Domestics: The World's Invisible WorkersChild Domestics: The World's Invisible Workers
 A background article on child domestic labor, with a focus on abuse suffered by girls.
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Child Labor and SocietyChild 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.
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Child Labor and The Global Village: Photography for Social ChangeChild 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.
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Child Labor CoalitionChild 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.
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Child Labor: Issues, Causes and InterventionChild Labor: Issues, Causes and Intervention
 Working paper from the World Bank's Human Capital Development and Operations.
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Child Labor linksChild 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.
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Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC)Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC)
 A Malawi-based organization that provides information on child rights and child labour.
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Child Workers in AsiaChild 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.
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Child Workers in NepalChild Workers in Nepal
 Site with extensive information on child labor in Nepal including a photo archive.
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Christian Morality: Issue on Child LaborChristian 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.
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Concerned For Working Children, Karnataka state, IndiaConcerned 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.
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Free The ChildrenFree The Children
 Addresses the issue of child labor in developing countries.
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Global March Against Child LaborGlobal 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.
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Helping HandsHelping Hands
 A website exploring the complex problem of child-labor in India. Includes many pictures.
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The History Place: Child Labor in AmericaThe History Place: Child Labor in America
 Sixty photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Bureau.
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How to Eliminate Child LaborHow to Eliminate Child Labor
 Essay about child labor and its relationship to economic development.
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Human Rights Watch - Child LaborHuman Rights Watch - Child Labor
 Includes information about bonded child labor and the international trafficking of children, and links to detailed reports.
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Human Rights Watch: Failure to Protect Child FarmworkersHuman 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.
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North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural TasksNorth 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.
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Project MalaProject Mala
 An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Rugmark FoundationRugmark Foundation
 A global nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in India, Nepal and Pakistan.
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Secret Child Labor in AmericaSecret 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.
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South Africa: Children's Constitutional RightsSouth Africa: Children's Constitutional Rights
 The new Constitution gave children rights which they should use to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future.
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Stolen DreamsStolen Dreams
 Photographs by David Parker, MD, MPH, documenting child labor in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India.
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Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana PlantationsTainted 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.
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Turning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane CultivationTurning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation
 A report on child labor in the sugarcane plantations of El Salvador.
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What is Child Labor?What is Child Labor?
 International Labour Organization definition of this subject, aimed for readers of all ages.
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Child Labor in PakistanChild 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) (February, 1996)
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