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The Fight Against Child Labour
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are nearly 152 million child labourers worldwide in 2018. Although the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other humanitarian actors provide aid in areas where displaced and local children are forced to work, many children still face the burden of having to earn wages to support their families. To remedy the situation in the case of Madagascar, ILO set up a programme that helps child workers change their status and gain access to training. (Video courtesy of UNHCR and ILO)
UN in Action No. 1588
published: 23 Sep 2018
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America Legalised Child Labor, And Nobody Noticed.
the children yearn for the mines
This is edited from a livestream I did! I stream every Friday at about 7.30pm EST!
The full stream is available here: https://youtu.be/QH81ovPF_ik?t=4094
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Non exhaustive list of sources:
The Washington Post has a few pieces that were super insightful on this! As well as the Economic Policy Institute. Literally any of these are fab reading material and greatly informed the video.
WaPo on child labor laws: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/31/us-child-labor-laws-state-bills/
WaPo on the FGA lobby: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/23/child-labor-lobbying-fga/
EPI on law rollbacks: https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most-dangerous-rollbacks-of-child-labor-laws-in-the-country-14-states-have-now-introduced...
published: 23 Sep 2024
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Child labour rises globally for the first time in decades
#Childlabour has risen for the first time in 20 years, the #UnitedNations said on Thursday, with one in 10 children in work worldwide and millions more at risk due to #COVID-19. The number of child labourers has increased to 160 million from 152 million in 2016, with the greatest rise in #Africa due to population growth, crises and poverty, said the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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published: 10 Jun 2021
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A Life of Child Labour: Pharady's Story | World Vision Canada
Every day, after doing her morning chores, Pharady heads to work for a 12 hour shift at the brick factory, to help support her family. The catch? She's 11 years old.
Learn more about child labour and how to help: https://www.worldvision.ca/stories/child-protection/child-labour-facts-and-how-to-help
published: 12 Aug 2010
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Where Children Must Work - Tropic Of Cancer - Episode 5 Preview - BBC
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Simon Reeve meets 10-year-old Jahangir, who works in a sweltering glass factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for less than 50p a day. There are more than three million child labourers in Bangladesh, and because more than 80 per cent of Bangladeshis live on around £1 a day, families would go hungry without the money children earn.
Charities and NGOs in Bangladesh now realise they cannot always prevent children from working. But Simon visits one of thousands of centres opened by UNICEF for child labourers to attend before and after their work shifts, so they can secure an education, friendship and a future.
...
published: 15 Apr 2010
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Uncovering Eight-Year-Old Children Working in Factories
In Nepal, over a million young children are working, many in brick factories. 11-year-old Arvind has been working for the past three years making around $1.75 a day.
The law strictly prohibits the employment of children under the age of 14, and is a crime punishable by a year of imprisonment and a fine. Yet around 10 percent of the workers in brick factories are underaged.
VICE World News Sahar Zand speaks with child labourers, their parents, and a factory owner to find out why these children are working.
#oursansar
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published: 30 Sep 2022
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Child labour behind global brands' best-selling perfumes - BBC World Service Documentaries
A new investigation from BBC Eye takes you to the heart of the jasmine trade in Egypt, to reveal the dark secrets behind the perfume industry.
Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM
Children are working in dangerous conditions throughout the night, and pickers are often earning as little as a dollar a day, while huge profits are made by the giants in the perfume industry.
Over half of the world’s supply of jasmine is produced in Egypt and this story reveals the true human cost of this precious flower, considered to be one of the most valuable ingredients used in some of the world's most iconic perfumes.
Billion-dollar global brands, who use Egyptian jasmine in their perfumes, claim to have zero tolerance on child labour throughout their supply chains. But ...
published: 27 May 2024
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Why Child Labor in America is Skyrocketing | Robert Reich
Corporations are now using the “labor shortage” as an excuse to bring back child labor. It’s part of a horrifying trend: Since 2015, child labor violations have risen nearly 300%.
Major companies like General Mills, Walmart, and McDonald’s have all been implicated.
Are corporate profits really more important than the safety of children?
published: 16 May 2023
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The Child Labour Experiment
Five children from Berlin did the unthinkable: They approached international fashion brands voluntarily to ask for a job. Why? Millions of children work in the textile supply chains worldwide. What is commonplace in the developing countries of the world often seems unimaginable in our society. In order to expose this double standard within the fashion industry, we carried out a field test.
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published: 31 Mar 2016
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Child Labor Robs Children of Their Future
Education is the first casualty of war. In Yemen, the number of out-of-school children has doubled since armed conflict escalated in 2015, leaving more than 2 million school-age children out of the classroom, jeopardizing their futures.
In the city of Taizz, in Yemen's southwest, 12-year-old Anas's childhood effectively ended the day his father died. That's when he became his family's sole breadwinner. Working from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. in an iron workshop leaves little time for studying, so Anas was forced to drop out of school. But he is determined that his brothers continue their educations.
"I stopped studying because there is no one to support my family," he says. "I made my four brothers study ... so that they graduate from universities and get jobs."
UNICEF is on the ground in Yemen, ...
published: 07 Jan 2022
3:49
The Fight Against Child Labour
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are nearly 152 million child labourers worldwide in 2018. Although the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)...
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are nearly 152 million child labourers worldwide in 2018. Although the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other humanitarian actors provide aid in areas where displaced and local children are forced to work, many children still face the burden of having to earn wages to support their families. To remedy the situation in the case of Madagascar, ILO set up a programme that helps child workers change their status and gain access to training. (Video courtesy of UNHCR and ILO)
UN in Action No. 1588
https://wn.com/The_Fight_Against_Child_Labour
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are nearly 152 million child labourers worldwide in 2018. Although the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and other humanitarian actors provide aid in areas where displaced and local children are forced to work, many children still face the burden of having to earn wages to support their families. To remedy the situation in the case of Madagascar, ILO set up a programme that helps child workers change their status and gain access to training. (Video courtesy of UNHCR and ILO)
UN in Action No. 1588
- published: 23 Sep 2018
- views: 334463
11:46
America Legalised Child Labor, And Nobody Noticed.
the children yearn for the mines
This is edited from a livestream I did! I stream every Friday at about 7.30pm EST!
The full stream is available here: https://...
the children yearn for the mines
This is edited from a livestream I did! I stream every Friday at about 7.30pm EST!
The full stream is available here: https://youtu.be/QH81ovPF_ik?t=4094
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Non exhaustive list of sources:
The Washington Post has a few pieces that were super insightful on this! As well as the Economic Policy Institute. Literally any of these are fab reading material and greatly informed the video.
WaPo on child labor laws: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/31/us-child-labor-laws-state-bills/
WaPo on the FGA lobby: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/23/child-labor-lobbying-fga/
EPI on law rollbacks: https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most-dangerous-rollbacks-of-child-labor-laws-in-the-country-14-states-have-now-introduced-bills-putting-children-at-risk/
EPI on subminimum wages - https://www.epi.org/blog/youth-subminimum-wages/
Child labor's effect on education (paper) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697749/
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https://wn.com/America_Legalised_Child_Labor,_And_Nobody_Noticed.
the children yearn for the mines
This is edited from a livestream I did! I stream every Friday at about 7.30pm EST!
The full stream is available here: https://youtu.be/QH81ovPF_ik?t=4094
----
Non exhaustive list of sources:
The Washington Post has a few pieces that were super insightful on this! As well as the Economic Policy Institute. Literally any of these are fab reading material and greatly informed the video.
WaPo on child labor laws: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/31/us-child-labor-laws-state-bills/
WaPo on the FGA lobby: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/23/child-labor-lobbying-fga/
EPI on law rollbacks: https://www.epi.org/blog/iowa-governor-signs-one-of-the-most-dangerous-rollbacks-of-child-labor-laws-in-the-country-14-states-have-now-introduced-bills-putting-children-at-risk/
EPI on subminimum wages - https://www.epi.org/blog/youth-subminimum-wages/
Child labor's effect on education (paper) - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3697749/
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- published: 23 Sep 2024
- views: 159768
1:55
Child labour rises globally for the first time in decades
#Childlabour has risen for the first time in 20 years, the #UnitedNations said on Thursday, with one in 10 children in work worldwide and millions more at risk ...
#Childlabour has risen for the first time in 20 years, the #UnitedNations said on Thursday, with one in 10 children in work worldwide and millions more at risk due to #COVID-19. The number of child labourers has increased to 160 million from 152 million in 2016, with the greatest rise in #Africa due to population growth, crises and poverty, said the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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#Childlabour has risen for the first time in 20 years, the #UnitedNations said on Thursday, with one in 10 children in work worldwide and millions more at risk due to #COVID-19. The number of child labourers has increased to 160 million from 152 million in 2016, with the greatest rise in #Africa due to population growth, crises and poverty, said the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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- published: 10 Jun 2021
- views: 41812
3:10
A Life of Child Labour: Pharady's Story | World Vision Canada
Every day, after doing her morning chores, Pharady heads to work for a 12 hour shift at the brick factory, to help support her family. The catch? She's 11 years...
Every day, after doing her morning chores, Pharady heads to work for a 12 hour shift at the brick factory, to help support her family. The catch? She's 11 years old.
Learn more about child labour and how to help: https://www.worldvision.ca/stories/child-protection/child-labour-facts-and-how-to-help
https://wn.com/A_Life_Of_Child_Labour_Pharady's_Story_|_World_Vision_Canada
Every day, after doing her morning chores, Pharady heads to work for a 12 hour shift at the brick factory, to help support her family. The catch? She's 11 years old.
Learn more about child labour and how to help: https://www.worldvision.ca/stories/child-protection/child-labour-facts-and-how-to-help
- published: 12 Aug 2010
- views: 127380
7:41
Where Children Must Work - Tropic Of Cancer - Episode 5 Preview - BBC
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Simon Reeve meets 10-year-old Jahangir, who works in a sweltering glass factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for less than 50p a day. There are more than three million child labourers in Bangladesh, and because more than 80 per cent of Bangladeshis live on around £1 a day, families would go hungry without the money children earn.
Charities and NGOs in Bangladesh now realise they cannot always prevent children from working. But Simon visits one of thousands of centres opened by UNICEF for child labourers to attend before and after their work shifts, so they can secure an education, friendship and a future.
Simon's epic trip around the Tropic of Cancer takes him through 18 countries on the northern edge of Earths tropical zone. Starting in Mexico he travels east through the glorious Caribbean, to a stunning desert oasis in North Africa, across India and Asia, and on a dangerous, covert incursion into the remote hills of western Burma.
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Simon Reeve meets 10-year-old Jahangir, who works in a sweltering glass factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for less than 50p a day. There are more than three million child labourers in Bangladesh, and because more than 80 per cent of Bangladeshis live on around £1 a day, families would go hungry without the money children earn.
Charities and NGOs in Bangladesh now realise they cannot always prevent children from working. But Simon visits one of thousands of centres opened by UNICEF for child labourers to attend before and after their work shifts, so they can secure an education, friendship and a future.
Simon's epic trip around the Tropic of Cancer takes him through 18 countries on the northern edge of Earths tropical zone. Starting in Mexico he travels east through the glorious Caribbean, to a stunning desert oasis in North Africa, across India and Asia, and on a dangerous, covert incursion into the remote hills of western Burma.
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- published: 15 Apr 2010
- views: 409935
21:24
Uncovering Eight-Year-Old Children Working in Factories
In Nepal, over a million young children are working, many in brick factories. 11-year-old Arvind has been working for the past three years making around $1.75 a...
In Nepal, over a million young children are working, many in brick factories. 11-year-old Arvind has been working for the past three years making around $1.75 a day.
The law strictly prohibits the employment of children under the age of 14, and is a crime punishable by a year of imprisonment and a fine. Yet around 10 percent of the workers in brick factories are underaged.
VICE World News Sahar Zand speaks with child labourers, their parents, and a factory owner to find out why these children are working.
#oursansar
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In Nepal, over a million young children are working, many in brick factories. 11-year-old Arvind has been working for the past three years making around $1.75 a day.
The law strictly prohibits the employment of children under the age of 14, and is a crime punishable by a year of imprisonment and a fine. Yet around 10 percent of the workers in brick factories are underaged.
VICE World News Sahar Zand speaks with child labourers, their parents, and a factory owner to find out why these children are working.
#oursansar
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- published: 30 Sep 2022
- views: 375698
41:00
Child labour behind global brands' best-selling perfumes - BBC World Service Documentaries
A new investigation from BBC Eye takes you to the heart of the jasmine trade in Egypt, to reveal the dark secrets behind the perfume industry.
Click here to su...
A new investigation from BBC Eye takes you to the heart of the jasmine trade in Egypt, to reveal the dark secrets behind the perfume industry.
Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM
Children are working in dangerous conditions throughout the night, and pickers are often earning as little as a dollar a day, while huge profits are made by the giants in the perfume industry.
Over half of the world’s supply of jasmine is produced in Egypt and this story reveals the true human cost of this precious flower, considered to be one of the most valuable ingredients used in some of the world's most iconic perfumes.
Billion-dollar global brands, who use Egyptian jasmine in their perfumes, claim to have zero tolerance on child labour throughout their supply chains. But the BBC can reveal that in the 2023 jasmine harvest season, children - some as young as five years old - were working in the jasmine fields that were supplying these global brands through factories in Egypt.
0:00 ‘Perfume’s Dark Secret’
02:30 The importance of jasmine in Egypt
05:30 When the sun goes down
09:18 Making less than one dollar a day
11:39 Living below the poverty line
12:55 In the factory farms
14:53 Global brands and their supply chains
20:44 The Fragrance Houses
22:06 The impact on health
24:15 The UN Special Rapporteur
26:03 Due diligence checks
30:06 Sedex’s and UEBT’s response
32:11 'The Masters'
33:20 How much is this bottle?
36:12 Local factories’ response
37:34 “We need corporate accountability”
39:20 Fragrance Houses respond
To watch more investigative journalism from our award-winning BBC Eye team check out this documentary playlist, perfect for the biggest screen in your home ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4fADt3h_U2SOWErIq-xtXPD
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A new investigation from BBC Eye takes you to the heart of the jasmine trade in Egypt, to reveal the dark secrets behind the perfume industry.
Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM
Children are working in dangerous conditions throughout the night, and pickers are often earning as little as a dollar a day, while huge profits are made by the giants in the perfume industry.
Over half of the world’s supply of jasmine is produced in Egypt and this story reveals the true human cost of this precious flower, considered to be one of the most valuable ingredients used in some of the world's most iconic perfumes.
Billion-dollar global brands, who use Egyptian jasmine in their perfumes, claim to have zero tolerance on child labour throughout their supply chains. But the BBC can reveal that in the 2023 jasmine harvest season, children - some as young as five years old - were working in the jasmine fields that were supplying these global brands through factories in Egypt.
0:00 ‘Perfume’s Dark Secret’
02:30 The importance of jasmine in Egypt
05:30 When the sun goes down
09:18 Making less than one dollar a day
11:39 Living below the poverty line
12:55 In the factory farms
14:53 Global brands and their supply chains
20:44 The Fragrance Houses
22:06 The impact on health
24:15 The UN Special Rapporteur
26:03 Due diligence checks
30:06 Sedex’s and UEBT’s response
32:11 'The Masters'
33:20 How much is this bottle?
36:12 Local factories’ response
37:34 “We need corporate accountability”
39:20 Fragrance Houses respond
To watch more investigative journalism from our award-winning BBC Eye team check out this documentary playlist, perfect for the biggest screen in your home ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4fADt3h_U2SOWErIq-xtXPD
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- published: 27 May 2024
- views: 1093741
4:20
Why Child Labor in America is Skyrocketing | Robert Reich
Corporations are now using the “labor shortage” as an excuse to bring back child labor. It’s part of a horrifying trend: Since 2015, child labor violations have...
Corporations are now using the “labor shortage” as an excuse to bring back child labor. It’s part of a horrifying trend: Since 2015, child labor violations have risen nearly 300%.
Major companies like General Mills, Walmart, and McDonald’s have all been implicated.
Are corporate profits really more important than the safety of children?
https://wn.com/Why_Child_Labor_In_America_Is_Skyrocketing_|_Robert_Reich
Corporations are now using the “labor shortage” as an excuse to bring back child labor. It’s part of a horrifying trend: Since 2015, child labor violations have risen nearly 300%.
Major companies like General Mills, Walmart, and McDonald’s have all been implicated.
Are corporate profits really more important than the safety of children?
- published: 16 May 2023
- views: 288137
2:10
The Child Labour Experiment
Five children from Berlin did the unthinkable: They approached international fashion brands voluntarily to ask for a job. Why? Millions of children work in the ...
Five children from Berlin did the unthinkable: They approached international fashion brands voluntarily to ask for a job. Why? Millions of children work in the textile supply chains worldwide. What is commonplace in the developing countries of the world often seems unimaginable in our society. In order to expose this double standard within the fashion industry, we carried out a field test.
#whomademyclothes - Share this video to help us raise awareness.
Join the Fashion Revolution http://fashionrevolution.org
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Imagery: gettyimages, shutterstock und Corbis
https://wn.com/The_Child_Labour_Experiment
Five children from Berlin did the unthinkable: They approached international fashion brands voluntarily to ask for a job. Why? Millions of children work in the textile supply chains worldwide. What is commonplace in the developing countries of the world often seems unimaginable in our society. In order to expose this double standard within the fashion industry, we carried out a field test.
#whomademyclothes - Share this video to help us raise awareness.
Join the Fashion Revolution http://fashionrevolution.org
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Imagery: gettyimages, shutterstock und Corbis
- published: 31 Mar 2016
- views: 125204
1:17
Child Labor Robs Children of Their Future
Education is the first casualty of war. In Yemen, the number of out-of-school children has doubled since armed conflict escalated in 2015, leaving more than 2 m...
Education is the first casualty of war. In Yemen, the number of out-of-school children has doubled since armed conflict escalated in 2015, leaving more than 2 million school-age children out of the classroom, jeopardizing their futures.
In the city of Taizz, in Yemen's southwest, 12-year-old Anas's childhood effectively ended the day his father died. That's when he became his family's sole breadwinner. Working from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. in an iron workshop leaves little time for studying, so Anas was forced to drop out of school. But he is determined that his brothers continue their educations.
"I stopped studying because there is no one to support my family," he says. "I made my four brothers study ... so that they graduate from universities and get jobs."
UNICEF is on the ground in Yemen, working with partners to protect children like Anas and his brothers, so they have the opportunity to reach their full potential. In 2021, UNICEF reached 50,000 households with multipurpose humanitarian cash transfers, helped 500,000 children access formal or nonformal education and provided 800,000 children with individual learning materials. .
“Access to quality education is a basic right for every child, including for girls, displaced children and those with disabilities,” said Philippe Duamelle, UNICEF Representative to Yemen. “The conflict has a staggering impact on every aspect of children’s lives, yet access to education provides a sense of normalcy for children in even the most desperate contexts and protects them from multiple forms of exploitation. Keeping children in school is critical for their own future and the future of Yemen.”
https://wn.com/Child_Labor_Robs_Children_Of_Their_Future
Education is the first casualty of war. In Yemen, the number of out-of-school children has doubled since armed conflict escalated in 2015, leaving more than 2 million school-age children out of the classroom, jeopardizing their futures.
In the city of Taizz, in Yemen's southwest, 12-year-old Anas's childhood effectively ended the day his father died. That's when he became his family's sole breadwinner. Working from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. in an iron workshop leaves little time for studying, so Anas was forced to drop out of school. But he is determined that his brothers continue their educations.
"I stopped studying because there is no one to support my family," he says. "I made my four brothers study ... so that they graduate from universities and get jobs."
UNICEF is on the ground in Yemen, working with partners to protect children like Anas and his brothers, so they have the opportunity to reach their full potential. In 2021, UNICEF reached 50,000 households with multipurpose humanitarian cash transfers, helped 500,000 children access formal or nonformal education and provided 800,000 children with individual learning materials. .
“Access to quality education is a basic right for every child, including for girls, displaced children and those with disabilities,” said Philippe Duamelle, UNICEF Representative to Yemen. “The conflict has a staggering impact on every aspect of children’s lives, yet access to education provides a sense of normalcy for children in even the most desperate contexts and protects them from multiple forms of exploitation. Keeping children in school is critical for their own future and the future of Yemen.”
- published: 07 Jan 2022
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