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= = = Global Issues: Child Labour = __[|Global issues, Oct 2007; n.25] This is a MUST SEE New Zealand Publication.__ This issue looks at the harsh realities of Child Labour,why children become child labourers, the effects of exploitative labour on children's health and well-being, a day in the life of a working child, the most common kinds of work done by child labourers. It also looks at a Maori view on teaching children about adult roles and defines key words for the worst kinds of child labour. __Many thanks to Te Kura Mäori at Victoria University of Wellington College of Education.__ Global Issues is a quarterly magazine produced for secondary schools and community education programmes by the Global Education Centre, which is part of the Development Resource Centre: a Wellington-based education and information service on global and development issues. We provide free services to the formal and informal education sectors in Aotearoa New Zealand. If you have any enquiries or would like information on global or developmental issues, contact us: phone 04 472 9549, fax 04 496 9599, email schools@globaled.org.nz or check our website, [|www.globaled.org.nz]. Unless otherwise indicated, Noa Noa Von Bassewitz provided the text for this issue. This resource has been produced with the assistance of UNICEF New Zealand [|www.unicef.org.nz]. Copyright has been acknowledged where possible. If you have any concerns, please contact us. This publication may be copied or downloaded from our website at [|www.globaled.org.nz/schools/global.html] and distributed for educational and information purposes on condition that the source is acknowledged. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form for commercial purposes without the prior permission of the Global Education Centre. This resource has been produced with the support of NZAID Nga Hoe Tuputupu-maitawhiti, [|www.nzaid.govt.nz] __© Global Education Centre 2007__
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=**[|What is Child labour?]** =

 **Click on the link above for a definition of child labour; where these children work, (Africa,China, Russia and Indonesia, Indian Region,Latin America, Middle East, North America, South Pacific), what th ****ey do, why it occurs and how it impacts the world economy ** 

=**[|Wikipedia article on Child Labour] ** = Contents hide]
 * [|1] [|Historical]
 * [|2] [|Present day]
 * [|3] [|Recent child labour incidents]
 * [|4] [|Defense of child labour]
 * [|5] [|See also]
 * [|6] [|References]
 * [|7] [|External links]





 =Thinkquest = A Thinkquest created by Intermediate age children  <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"><span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(0,0,0);">and looking at child labour in China, <span style="font-size: 108%; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Mongolia, India and Africa <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> =<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255);"> = <span style="font-size: 156%; color: rgb(128,0,0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,227,0);"> =<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,255); background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">**<span style="color: rgb(128,0,0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,227,0);">Children helping children through education ** = ** [|Kids can free the children: http://www.free the children.org] ** From the web-site :** Free The Children is the world's largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries. Founded in 1995 by international child rights activist [|Craig Kielburger] when he gathered 6 school friends all 12 years old to begin fighting child labour. The primary goals of the organization are to free children from poverty and exploitation and free young people from the notion that they are powerless to affect positive change in the world.

=<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(128,0,0); background-color: rgb(241,179,19);">**<span style="background-color: rgb(255,227,0);">History of Child Labour ** =

This site offers detailed descriptions on what it was like to work in a factory as a //child//. Includes biographies of factory reformers and those who supported child labour, accounts from the workers and other things related to child labour in Britain 1750-1900 **...** [] <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(128,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,227,0);"> =<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(128,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,227,0);">**Child Labour in New Zealand** =

This site has great links to both International and New Zealand information on child labour-related sites and these links are a good starting point in finding information on the fight against the worst forms of child labour.

Search Te Ara, the encyclopaedia of New Zealand for references to child labour (remember to use quotation marks around the phrase")

Search**<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(128,128,0); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[| **Papers Past**] ** For newspaper articles concerning child labour

This account of the inaugural lecture of Professor Paul Roth at Otago University on 27 March 2008 reports on present laws governing child labour in New Zealand.
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,255);">[|Child labour in New Zealand: a job for the nanny state] **


 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0,0,255);">[|Kiwi kids `work in sweatshop conditions] **' By: TYLER, Fran, Dominion Post, The, Jan 24, 2004
 * //Abstract: Children//** **//as young as 11 are being forced to work to support their families, according to a//** new //**survey which reveals Third World**// child labour //**conditions**// in NewZealand//**.**//

Extract from the web-site: For many enterprising youngsters an after-school job is an introduction to the real world. Earnings might supplement pocket-money, kickstart a savings habit or be frittered away on junkfood or other diversions. The youngster might begin to get a useful insight into ``the system'' - the worker-boss relationship, taxation's demands and capitalism generally. That is well and good. However, a survey of nearly 5000 people aged from 10 to 17 paints a different picture. The Catholic social service agency survey found children of 11 being forced to work to help support their families and some youngsters working as late as 1am or being injured on the job. A 15-year-old was apparently working a 35-hour week, on top of school work, at a manufacturing job paying less than $2 an hour.
 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(0,0,255); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Exploiting Child Labour] **

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">** [|Rosemary Goodyear, Overworked Children? Child Labour in New Zealand, 1919–1939] ** Try this PDF file available through the "New Zealand Journal of History Vol. 40, No. 1 April, April 2006 It may be quite a difficult article for some students to follow as it is written for adults but has some very useful information about how children were employed at this time, together with some useful tables.

Abstract: **//The//** Child Labour //**Convention, which**// New Zealand //**has just signed, aims to protect**// children //**from exploitation,**// in //**the process promoting decent work opportunities for men and women.**// New Zealand //**has just ratified a**// new //**international**// labour //**standard, the Worst Forms of**// Child Labour //**Convention.**//
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,255);">[|Child-Labour stand step towards a better world] ** : The Press, 16 July 2001

=<span style="color: rgb(128,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,227,0);">**First Hand Experiences** = =<span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(128,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,227,0);"> = <span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(128,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,227,0);"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">A former child worker in South China talks about his experiences at a seminar in Guangzhou to launch [|Impactt's] draft child labour remediation guidelines for the industrial context <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"> [] Impactt has been working in ethical trade for 11 years, enabling companies to improve working conditions in their supply chains in a way that brings clear business benefits to both ends of the chain.
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">[|Hearing the voices of child workers – Martin Buttle] **

=<span style="color: rgb(128,0,0); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,227,0);">**Agencies that** **advocate for the rights of children** =

<span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(214,204,204);"> [|Beyond Child Labour, Affirming Rights] Giving Girls a Chance - Educating to End Child Labour © UNICEF/BANA2008-00541/Mohammed Aminuzzman An estimated 100 million girls are involved in child labour worldwide. Many of these girls work in the agriculture, domestic and manufacturing sectors.

[| Save the Children] On the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act, a new report by Save the Children UK reveals millions of children are still living as child slaves. [|Small Hands of Slavery] [PDF, 200MB] This report exposes the eight most prevalent forms of child slavery that are still condemning children to live in appalling conditions, forced to work long hours for little or nothing in return and often subject to extreme harm, violence and rape. Included among these are 'Bonded child labour, ' 'Forced work in mines,' 'Agricultural labour,' 'Child soldiers' and 'Domestic slavery'



<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(223,111,12); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**This related World Vision site is really worth the visit!** From the web-site: The //Born to be Free Connection// features:
 * Child labourers – stories, photo albums and student postcards for three ex-child labourers
 * Working hard – opinion poll and quiz, photo puzzles and work descriptions
 * Online expert – Reena in India answers student questions online in Term 1 2006
 * Child labour handbook – FAQ answered using text, photos and graphics
 * Simulation game – decide how to eliminate child labour in your area
 * STOP child labour – what it takes to set a child free, calculation challenge, and postcards to the Young Pillars club

Their Mission (From the web-site): **The Global March Against Child Labour is a movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful to the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development."**

<span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">[|International Labour Organisation] This link will take you to the Child Labour theme page of the ILO which has up-to date information about what is happening globally including the theme for this year's World Day 2009 (12 June 2009) - Give girls a chance - end child labour.



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=**<span style="color: rgb(128,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,227,0);">DO YOU NEED PICTURES? **=

<span style="font-size: 117%; color: rgb(0,0,128); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Photograph shows half-length portrait of two girls wearing banners with slogan "ABOLISH CHILD SLAVERY!!" in English and Yiddish, one carrying American flag; spectators stand nearby. Probably taken during May 1, 1909 Labor Parade in New York City.
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<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(128,0,0);">**[|Stolen Dreams - Photographs of David Parker MD]** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Children working in a variety of occupations in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India


 * <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(128,0,0); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Images of Child Labor in Madras 1997 by Usha Kris] **

By photographing individual children in their worlds - their families, communities, countries - we hope to see behind the child labor label. Child labor is the result of a complex set of factors: poverty; lack of schools; poor health care; war; and many others. Solutions must meet the needs of individual children. We need to know who they are to know what they need.