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 s
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/pakistan/pakistan.htm

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

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

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

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

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/

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 f
http://www.cwa.tnet.co.th/

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 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

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/

Child Labor: Issues and Directions for the World Bank -- Contents

This paper proposes that the World Bank take stronger action - and outlines what to do and how - to help address the issue more pro-actively, partnering with others who share a similar concern about the damage to children, their development, and
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/HDNet/HDdocs.nsf/f879b8f845ed3915852566500051f549/e4bcc001dba99537852566b1000a86fa?OpenDocument

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

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

Free The Children

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

Child Workers in Nepal

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

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/

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/

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 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
http://www.stopchildlabor.org/

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

United Nations program tracking child labor.
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/policy/index.htm

People's Institute of Rural Development

Indian based campaign against child labour.
http://education.vsnl.com/pird

The Campaign to End Child Labor

Documentary history of the first decades of the campaign to end child labor in the U.S., with contemporary photographs, political cartoons, poems, essays and books.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/index.html

How to Eliminate Child Labor

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

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

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/

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

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/

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 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

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 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/

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/

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