1. Warm up 4-12 Turn in your Global Sneaker. I’m checking that you finished the Human Rights Internet Activity. Answer the Previewing Questions on the handout.

3. What is “child labor”? Defined as: “Work for children that harms them or exploits them in some way (physically, mentally, morally ) or by blocking their access to education.” They have no time to learn or play.

4. The Nature of the Problem: Some Basic Facts 250 million children work. One- quarter between the ages of 5 and 14. Asia (61%), Africa (32%) & Latin America and the Caribbean (7%). Majority in agriculture Child workers on a farm in Maine, October 1940

6. The Nature of the Problem: Some Basic Facts 20% rural and 5% in urban - under 10 years. more boys than girls work Work nine hours or more A young boy recycling garbage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2006

7. Causes Poverty Cultural factors Lack of Education and/or Health Services Illiteracy Quest for cheap labor A boy repairing a tire in Gambia

8. Hazardous Occupations Mining Construction Working with radioactive materials and dangerous chemicals Exposure to pesticides in agricultural work Carrying heavy weights Global sex industry (moral, psychological and health hazards) A girl working on a farm in Guatamala.

9. The worst forms of Child Labor Bondage –Form of slavery –Extensively practiced in South Asia Sex Trade –Prostitution –Pornography Child Soldiers –More than 300,000 forcibly recruited –Witness and participate in acts of brutality

10. Legislative Landmarks 1919: 14 years set as the minimum age to work 1973: prohibiting employment below the age designated for completing school –The minimum age for employment in work that is likely to jeopardize health, safety or morals is set at 18 years. –Light work, which does not interfere with schooling, is permitted from age 13 years.

11. Legislative Landmarks 1989: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) affirmed children’s right to: –protection from economic exploitation –leisure, play and participation in cultural and artistic activities –free and compulsory primary education –Birth registration

12. United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF’s child protection programs aim to prevent and respond –violence, –exploitation and abuse –Orphans –in conflict with the law and in armed conflict.

13. UNICEF's child protection programs seek to address: Birth Registration Child Labour Child Marriage Child Trafficking Children in Conflicts and Emergencies Children and Justice Children without Parental Care Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Sexual Exploitation of Children Violence against Children

14. BURUNDI, AFRICA -- CHILD SOLDIERS Clarence Williams, photographer

16. CAMBODIA--GARBAGE PICKERS Jon Warren, photographer

19. Peru -- Brick Makers Ernesto Bazan, photographer

20. Peru -- Brick Makers

21. Trafficking at Nepal-India Border Judy Walgren, photographer

23. Pakistan—Sewing Soccer Balls

25. UNICEF in action

26. Internet Sources http://globalmarch.org/index.php http://www.aft.org/international/child/instructional.html http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/ http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gallery/ http://www.unicefusa.org/childlabor/ http://www.boondocksnet.com/labor/ http://www.fieldsofhope.org/