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Abuses Against Child Domestic Workers in El Salvador - http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0104/
Documents the situation of girls in El Salvador that work as domestics, a form of labor that makes them particularly vulnerable to physical abuse and sexual harassment.

Child Domestics: The World's Invisible Workers - http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/10/africa8789.htm
A background article on child domestic labor, with a focus on abuse suffered by girls.

Child Labor and Society - http://www.sadashivan.com/
This site seeks to move beyong just saying "child labor is wrong", to understand the social conditions that lead to children being forced to work.

Child Labor and The Global Village: Photography for Social Change - http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/
A team of 11 photographers who will be photographing the worlds of 11 child workers around the world. By photographing individual children within their families, communities, countries they hope to show behind the "child labor" label.

Child Labor Coalition - http://www.stopchildlabor.org/
National US network for the exchange of information about child labor; providing a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation; and developing informational and educational outreach to the public and private sectors.

Child Labor in Pakistan - http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96feb/pakistan/pakistan.htm
Pakistan has recently passed laws greatly limiting child labor and indentured servitude, but those laws are universally ignored, and some 11 million children, aged four to fourteen, keep that country's factories operating, often working in brutal and squalid conditions. (Atlantic Monthly)

Child Labor links - http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EdModule/labor/childlabor.html
Links to the Free the Children organization, the home page of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, The ILO's report on Child Labour Today: Facts and Figures, The ILO's photo essay on child labor.

Child Labor: Issues, Causes and Intervention - http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/workp/wp_00056.html
Working paper from the World Bank's Human Capital Development and Operations.

Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC) - http://www.cridoc.net/
A Malawi-based organization that provides information on child rights and child labour.

Child Workers in Asia - http://www.cwa.tnet.co.th/
CWA is a network of individuals involved in the child labour movement in various countries in Asia. Recognizing that the most effective way to create change is through grass-roots involvement and local advocacy, CWA has worked over the last ten years to foster the development of child focused non government organizations across Asia.

Child Workers in Nepal - http://www.cwin.org.np/
Site with extensive information on child labor in Nepal including a photo archive.

Christian Morality: Issue on Child Labor - http://www.angelfire.com/ab2/relgroup/
Tackles the issue on Child Labor especially in the Philippines, where an estimated 2 million children are compelled to work. It relates the problems caused by child labor, some analysis, and advocacy against the issue.

Concerned For Working Children, Karnataka state, India - http://www.workingchild.org/
CWC works with local governments, community and working children themselves to implement viable, comprehensive, sustainable and appropriate solutions in partnership , so that children do not have to work.

Free The Children - http://www.freethechildren.org/
Addresses the issue of child labor in developing countries.

Global March Against Child Labor - http://www.globalmarch.org
Child labor condemns millions of children around the world to a life of servitude. Reports, papers and details of the Global March Against Child Labor which took place in 1998.

Helping Hands - http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/children/working/index.htm
A website exploring the complex problem of child-labor in India. Includes many pictures.

How to Eliminate Child Labor - http://www.empereur.com/DOC/Child_Labor.html
Essay about child labor and its relationship to economic development.

Human Rights Watch - Child Labor - http://www.hrw.org/about/projects/crd/child-labor.htm
Includes information about bonded child labor and the international trafficking of children, and links to detailed reports.

North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks - http://www.nagcat.org/
Offers parents, employers, and educators a resource on assigning agricultural jobs to children 7 to 16 years of age.

Project Mala - http://www.projectmala.org.uk
An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.

Rugmark Foundation - http://www.rugmark.org/
A global nonprofit organization working to end child labor and offer educational opportunities for children in India, Nepal and Pakistan.

South Africa: Children's Constitutional Rights - http://www.pangaea.org/street_children/africa/safrica3.htm
The new Constitution gave children rights which they should use to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future.

Stolen Dreams - http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gallery/
Photographs by David Parker, MD, MPH, documenting child labor in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India.

Tainted Harvest: Child Labor and Obstacles to Organizing on Ecuador's Banana Plantations - http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/ecuador/
Report by Human Rights Watch examines child banana workers in Ecuador as the victims of serious human rights abuses.

The History Place: Child Labor in America - http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Sixty photographs by Lewis W. Hine the investigative photographer who worked for the Child Labor Bureau.

Turning a Blind Eye: Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador’s Sugarcane Cultivation - http://hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/
A report on child labor in the sugarcane plantations of El Salvador.

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