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The Spoon (blog)
February 12, 2018
There's growing consumer interest in knowing where your food comes from. In some cases, it came from a corporate farm. In others, it passed through the hands of slaves on its way to the supermarket. The latter is most often the case with fish—so much so that the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood WatchÃÂ ...
News Deeply
February 8, 2018
... New Urban Agenda, which countries adopted at the Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development in Ecuador in October 2016. .... “Getting a job as a minor is difficult because this could cross the line of child labor,” explained Senator Risa Hontiveros, who is the chairperson of the SenateÃÂ ...
Prensa Latina
February 6, 2018
Ecuador, Brazil Evaluate Compliance With Cooperation Program ... those related to the breast milk bank initiative, forest restoration, management of public companies, eradication of child labor, digital terrestrial television, authorization of medicines and pest management in fruits and Amazonian species.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
January 12, 2018
Bolivia has the world's lowest minimum age for child labor: 10. At that young age, children can work legally for themselves or their families. Once they hit age 12, they can work for others. The controversial law passed in 2014 is unique in the world, but three years later the government is still struggling withÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 23, 2017
"Although the rate of child labor has been reduced significantly in Colombia, there are still 869,000 children working in the country: this is a huge and monstrous figure that humiliates us as Colombians," said Labor Minister Griselda Janeth Restrepo Gallego in San Victorino, Bogota. "This is not a problem ofÃÂ ...
Barbados Today
December 11, 2017
The other CARICOM countries taking part in the initiative are the Bahamas, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St Lucia, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Also included are Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,ÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
November 17, 2017
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), agriculture is where the worst and most common forms of child labor are found. Coffee plantations employ children to pick beans in Colombia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador,ÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
November 15, 2017
Why is this potentially great news for kids? My Human Rights Watch colleagues and I have interviewed hundreds of children and their families working in tobacco farming in five countries: Kazakhstan, the United States, Brazil, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe. We have consistently found that many children whoÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
October 24, 2017
“Over the last couple of decades there's been some real progress in reducing the number of children involved in child labor worldwide,” says Jo Becker, ... For example, Albania increased funding for labor inspectors, Ecuador increased its number of inspectors by 67 percent, and Brazil launched 950ÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
September 19, 2017
True, child labor rates are still declining, but at a much slower pace. From 2012 to 2016, the numbers of children in child labor dipped to 152 million from 168 million, only one-third of the reduction achieved the previous four years. At this rate, governments have no hope of reaching the target they set inÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
June 27, 2017
The 115-page report, “'We Can't Refuse to Pick Cotton': Forced and Child Labor Linked to World Bank Group Investments in Uzbekistan” details how the Uzbek ... Under the loan agreements, the Uzbek government is required to comply with laws prohibiting forced and child labor, and the World Bank canÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
June 13, 2017
The Ecuadorean state also implemented various measures and agreements with the production sector in order to reduce child labor. As a result, both sectors that have employed the highest number of children — agriculture and trade — have reduced their figure by 66 and 15 percent respectively.
Human Rights Watch
June 11, 2017
This year's World Day against Child Labor focuses on the impact of conflict and natural disasters on the issue. About 250 million children live in areas affected by armed conflict, and another 70 million are affected by natural disasters. In total, 168 million children around the world are pressed into child labor.
Human Rights Watch
May 3, 2017
A 13-year-old boy digs for gold ore at a small-scale mine in Mbeya Region, Tanzania. “I was digging with my colleague,” he said. “I entered into a short pit. When I was digging he told me to come out, and when I was about to come out, the shaft collapsed on me, reaching the level of my chest … they startedÃÂ ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
December 31, 1999
The Juancito Pinto program aims to increase school attendance and reduce child labor. ... government pursuing anti-neoliberal economic policies or its own foreign policy independent of the United States, as the case with Rafael Correa's Ecuador and Morales' Bolivia, becomes a U.S. target for overthrow.
The National Law Review
December 31, 1999
In a Federal Register notice issued today, the U.S. Department of Labor increased civil penalties for a variety of regulated areas, such as Immigration, Child Labor, Wage and Hour, MSHA and OSHA. “The U.S. Department of Labor (Department) is publishing this final rule to adjust for inflation the civilÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
November 17, 2017
According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), agriculture is where the worst and most common forms of child labor are found. Coffee plantations employ children to pick beans in Colombia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama, El Salvador,ÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
November 15, 2017
Why is this potentially great news for kids? My Human Rights Watch colleagues and I have interviewed hundreds of children and their families working in tobacco farming in five countries: Kazakhstan, the United States, Brazil, Indonesia, and Zimbabwe. We have consistently found that many children whoÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
October 24, 2017
“Over the last couple of decades there's been some real progress in reducing the number of children involved in child labor worldwide,” says Jo Becker, ... For example, Albania increased funding for labor inspectors, Ecuador increased its number of inspectors by 67 percent, and Brazil launched 950ÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
September 19, 2017
True, child labor rates are still declining, but at a much slower pace. From 2012 to 2016, the numbers of children in child labor dipped to 152 million from 168 million, only one-third of the reduction achieved the previous four years. At this rate, governments have no hope of reaching the target they set inÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
June 27, 2017
The 115-page report, “'We Can't Refuse to Pick Cotton': Forced and Child Labor Linked to World Bank Group Investments in Uzbekistan” details how the Uzbek ... Under the loan agreements, the Uzbek government is required to comply with laws prohibiting forced and child labor, and the World Bank canÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
June 13, 2017
The Ecuadorean state also implemented various measures and agreements with the production sector in order to reduce child labor. As a result, both sectors that have employed the highest number of children — agriculture and trade — have reduced their figure by 66 and 15 percent respectively.
Human Rights Watch
June 11, 2017
This year's World Day against Child Labor focuses on the impact of conflict and natural disasters on the issue. About 250 million children live in areas affected by armed conflict, and another 70 million are affected by natural disasters. In total, 168 million children around the world are pressed into child labor.
Human Rights Watch
May 3, 2017
A 13-year-old boy digs for gold ore at a small-scale mine in Mbeya Region, Tanzania. “I was digging with my colleague,” he said. “I entered into a short pit. When I was digging he told me to come out, and when I was about to come out, the shaft collapsed on me, reaching the level of my chest … they startedÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
March 2, 2017
In the Netherlands, a groundbreaking law would require companies doing business in the country to examine whether child labor occurs in their supply chains, and to develop a plan of action to address any child labor that is found. The law would be the first in the Netherlands to make human rights “dueÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
February 13, 2017
(Seoul) – The North Korean government should immediately stop exploiting school children by forcing them to work, Human Rights Watch said today, releasing its submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. The submission details forced labor including farming, rock breaking,ÃÂ ...
Scoop.co.nz
September 14, 2017
... would be further barred, as they already are, from using child labor. ..... and the ongoing success of Ecuador in evicting U.S. military bases,ÃÂ ...
Missoula Independent
August 31, 2017
Colombia produces about 78 percent of those, Ecuador contributes 15 ... have no pesticide regulations, no unions, no rules about child labor.
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
August 18, 2017
"Significant violations" include serious noncompliance with overtime rules, annual leave rules, social security rules, child labor laws and theÃÂ ...
Common Dreams
August 17, 2017
... to collective bargaining, protection from forced labor and child labor, ... the investor-state dispute mechanism, including Brazil, Ecuador andÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
June 27, 2017
The 115-page report, “'We Can't Refuse to Pick Cotton': Forced and Child Labor Linked to World Bank Group Investments in Uzbekistan”à...
teleSUR English
June 13, 2017
Ecuador Reduced Child Labor by 10% During Citizens' Revolution ... The Ecuadorean government follows a strict prohibitionist policy.
teleSUR English
June 13, 2017
The Ecuadorean state also implemented various measures and agreements with the production sector in order to reduce child labor.
Human Rights Watch
June 11, 2017
Hazrat Hussain, 10, loads bricks onto a truck. Hazrat doesn't go to school and works alongside his two teenage brothers at a brick kiln outsideÃÂ ...
Insider Monkey (blog)
May 16, 2017
This article is not easy to read but raising awareness is crucial in solving the problems, therefore we bring you the list of countries that have theÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
May 3, 2017
A 13-year-old boy digs for gold ore at a small-scale mine in Mbeya Region, Tanzania. “I was digging with my colleague,” he said. “I entered intoÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
March 15, 2017
My colleagues and I published a Human Rights Watch report documenting hazardous child labor on Indonesian tobacco farms last May.
Human Rights Watch
March 2, 2017
In a typical department store or mall, shoppers have little way of knowing if what they buy – a piece of clothing, jewelry, or the latest electronicsÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
February 13, 2017
(Seoul) – The North Korean government should immediately stop exploiting school children by forcing them to work, Human Rights Watch saidÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
February 8, 2017
Five-time failed presidential candidate Alvaro Noboa promises a parliamentary coup if his slate wins enough seats in the national assembly.
Huffington Post
November 24, 2016
Betsy DeVos-funded Acton Institute argues for abolition of child labor laws, says mining wld be “exciting life” for poor kids. Seriously.
Noozhawk
March 21, 2017
The Galapagos Islands are 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador. They are ... Also, Nothing Like Chocolate (2012) which profiled Mott Green, an anarchist chocolate-maker from Grenada, who eschewed child labor to do things right in an industry that rarely did.
KBIA
March 18, 2017
A presidential run-off in the South American nation of Ecuador is shaping up as a referendum on the decade-long rule of leftist President Rafael Correa.
OCCRP
March 17, 2017
Child gold washer in Ecuador (Photo: Maurizio Costanzo, CC BY 2.0)Juan Pablo Granda, 35, was allegedly involved in a massive scheme in which his company's Miami branch bought gold from illegal mines controlled by criminal organizations, this way ...
ConfectioneryNews.com
March 13, 2017
It expanded the program to Ecuador in 2014 (3,000 farmers) and to Madagascar in 2015. It says it has trained ... Lindt told us it has a child labor action plan in its Ghana program, which includes a Child Labor Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS).
News Deeply
March 10, 2017
Education protects children from violence, abuse and exploitation, to which they are vulnerable during crisis, including child labor, recruitment into armed forces and sexual violence. And quality programs can build children's resilience and help them ...
News Deeply
March 9, 2017
... outbreak and the earthquake in Ecuador. In the absence of action, children are trafficked, forced into child labor or married off at young ages. Young people are becoming frustrated at the lack of opportunity, making them vulnerable to extremism or ...
West Hartford News
March 9, 2017
A Taste of Ecuador will be an educational and cultural event addressing FIBUSPAM's humanitarian mission in Riobamba, Ecuador and providing insight into the realities of cultural, economic and family life in Andean society. The event will feature ...
Triple Pundit (registration) (blog)
March 1, 2017
And still today, the supply chain contains forced labor, child labor and human rights abuses. There are countless examples ... In Latin America, the government of Ecuador has embraced this approach for the whole of its palm oil industry. This is a ...
Gothamist
February 14, 2017
Some wholesalers will buy from farms in Colombia or Ecuador with abhorrent human rights records. Many countries have instituted regulations since the mid-1990s to try to crack down on problems like child labor and dangerous pesticide use, but abuses ...
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