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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