Hundreds Go Missing in India's North East

For records, law and order situation has improved a lot in India's North East region of late. There are fewer killings, fewer attacks and fewer people wounded. Now, just when you are all tempted to say ‘how wonderful!’, comes the news: there are people vanishing, in...

The Morality of Child Labor

By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" From the comfort of their plush offices and five to six figure salaries, self-appointed NGO's often denounce child labor as their employees rush from one five star hotel to another, $3000 subnotebooks and...

Hard Labour for Congolese Kids

Poverty forces thousands of children into taking on exhausting and dangerous work. By Melanie Gouby, Passy Mubalama, Desanges Kihuha - International Justice - ICC ...

The Cambodian challenges

Ten years ago the country retained traces of the devastation of war. Today Cambodia seems another place. The Khmer Rouge regime, the Vietnamese invasion, the civil wars, all seem chapters of a book of history. The...

Did you know blood dimond is a massive human trafficking case?

"One hears about a phrase called  "Blood Diamond." awfully a lot. But, unless he or she is familiar with the subject, not many people really understand that it, in a nutshell, is nothing but a massive slavery of the Zimbabwean women and children by the greedy corrupted...

ILAB Report gives consumers reason to shop responsibly

A United States Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) report gives consumers reason to shop responsibly. Released in September 2009, the report shows 122 goods in 58 countries that are...

World Day Against Child Labour - 12th June

Child Labor is a scourge in which the whole world is engulfed. You can find innocent children working their hearts and souls out to satisfy their bare needs which is just getting food. There have been worldwide...

Child Slave Labor in China

   Just when we think we've heard the worst out of China, another atrocity rears its ugly head.  This time it's the push for more child labor. I know that some of you have read my articles on China...

AFRICA: Too small to be fighting in anyone's war

(December 2003) - His comrades in the transit camp run by Save the Children-UK in Bunia, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), called him 'Kadogo', which means "small" in Kiswahili. The name suited him for he was tiny, much too tiny, in fact, to be involved in...

Roadside is the school for these children

These children are rural migrants from Madhya Pradesh performing acrobats in Delhi Roadside Nearly 90% (in my view) of child laborers are rural children who migrate to cities and end up begging, prostitution,...

child labour

90% of child laborers are rural children. Many migrate to cities and end up begging, prostitution, domestic helpers, or other odd jobs. It is easy to say “give them education and not work”, but the question...

Kid Nation S01E05 (CBS)

The child exploitation show on CBS continues. This time the kids are surprised that there will be an election. Even more surprising is the fact that Greg from the blue district doesn’t want to run. He probably has seen that more power can be wielded from behind the scenes,...

Nike censors art about it using child labor

Every year there is an exhibition (called ARC, written as @(R)(C) meaning face) of (mostly fictional) billboards at the biggest square in Hungary, Budapest, this year it's the eigth. One of the sponsors this year:...

Child workers face uncertain future

"Dhiraj Kumar is staring at an uncertain future. Until two days ago, he worked at a tea stall at the Indian capital, Delhi's, biggest bus station, ISBT."

Trick or Child Slave Labor this Halloween

"It has probably been many years since you were truly scared on Halloween. But what's genuinely frightening is chocolate."

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