Week of November 16-20 CWI

Monday- CWI

Went over forum post 

ISIS attacks 

Child labor continued 

Top ten worst countries

10. Ethiopia- 60% work for $1 a month

9. Pakistan- Children are abducted, rented, bought and sold 

8. Burundi- 25% 4-15 involved in child labor 

  • Slavery 
  • Heavy metal 
  • Mining 
  • Brick Making

7. Afghanistan- 30% school aged kids work 

  • Cement processing 
  • Textile processing 
  • Food processing 

Thursday- CWI

We watched a video 

6. Zimbabwe- unofficially work in gold, diamond, and chrome mines 

  • Forestry 
  • Agriculture

5. Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Beijing Olympics- 2008 
  • Iron used to construct China's stadiums 
  • Mined using children's bare hands in central African nations

4. Sudan

  • Recruited as child soldiers 
  • Forced labor on farms
  • Young girls taken and forced to work as sex workers/ slaves

3. Somalia-40% of children under 15 forced child labor 

  • Works under worst form
  • Machinery 
  • Tools
  • Carrying heavy loads
  • Harmful pesticides 
  • Handling livestock 
  • Armed conflict 
  • Bodyguards
  • Sex slaves within militias

2. North Korea 

  • Child re educations 
  • government outlawed under aged work 
  • Seen working in fields and factories 

1. Myanmar- 40% of children never enroll in school

  • Army recruits 12 
  • Not in army- forced into labor like 
  • Farms 
  • Running street markets 
  • Collect trash from streets
  • Suicides common - harsh treatment

We are campaigning to change the public's opinion 

Trying to promote free education for all children 

Collective bargaining Strategies

Walmart

  • 200 kids
  • 11 or younger
  • sewing clothes
  • Factory in Bangladesh  

Nike 

  • Accused of breaking child labor laws 
  • making soccer balls

Tuesday-CWI

Jc Penney

  • 200 kids 
  • 11 or younger
  • sewing clothes 
  • factory in Bangladesh

Puma

  • 200 kids 
  • 11 or younger
  • sewing clothes 
  • factory in Bangladesh

Beijing Olympics 

  • China's stadiums was mined using children bare hands in the central Africa nation 

Child labor fell 40% for girls since 2000 and 25% for boys 

200 million child labors 120 million work in hazardous conditions

73 million children under 10 years old

Highest number of child labors is in the sub Saharan of Africa

 Most of the child labors work on farms and produce cocoa beans coffee rubber crops and cotton 

20 million in factories and produce clothing textiles matches various items of clothing rugs and children toys 

Wednesday-CWI

Took our Europe class map quiz

Child Brides

Thursday watched a video 

Friday

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