Week of November 16th - 20th CWI

Mon:

- top ten worst countries child labor

- Ethiopia - 

- Pakistan - abducted, rented, bought sold

- Burundi - 25% 4-15 involved in child labor, slavery, heavy manual work agricultural

- Afghanistan - 30% primary-school aged kids work

- Zimbabwe - unofficially work in gold, diamond, Encourages child labor -> forestry, agriculture

- dem rep Congo - Iron used to construct china's stadiums, mined using children's bare hands

- Sudan - child soldiers, young girls -> forced to work as sex workers/slaves

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

- under worst forms of child labor according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees 

- used in armed conflict

- North Korea - child re-education through labor

- youth placed in labor camps-political offenses

- Myanmanr- 40% children never enroll in school

- army recruits as young as 12

- not in army- forced into labor

- farms, running street markets, collect trash from streets

- june 12th World ady against Child Labor

- Bangladesh building, woodworkers' federation, metal workers' union, remove from hazardous workplaces, enroll in school and assistant programs

- collective bargaining strategies

- 2000 - international federation of chemical, energy, mine, and General Workers' Unions (ICEM)

  - Signed Agreement with Freudenberg Corporation

  - Commits a Ban on Child Labor 

- Sydney, Australia, Olympics in 2000

- The music against child labor initiative

- united nations agency

- promotes decent work throughout the world

- have numerous conventions dealing with working conditions around the world

- convention for minimum wage

- any work likely to hurt mental/physical health of child should not be done by children aged 18 or under

- the wort forms convetion

- prohibits the worst forms of child labor

- walmart - 200 kids, 11 or younger, sewing clothes, factory in Bangladesh

Tue:

Nike

- Accused of breaking child labir laws

J.C. Penney

- 200 kids 

- 11 or younger

Puma

- Factory in Bangladesh

- fell 40% for girls and 25% for boys since 2000

- 200 mio child laborers - 120 million in hazardous work 

- 73 million children are under 10 years old

- Highest number in sub-Saharan Africa

- Most work on farms 

   -  coffee beans, crops, cotton, cocoa beans

- 20 million children in factories 

Wed:

Child marriges

Thur:

Mr Bruns absent 

-> video 

Fri:

video

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