Global March Against Child Labor

– 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

– A website exploring the complex problem of child-labor in India. Includes many pictures.

Human Rights Watch – Child Labor

– 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

– Offers parents, employers, and educators a resource on assigning agricultural jobs to children 7 to 16 years of age.

Project Mala

– An action programme for the elimination of child labour in the hand knotted carpet industry in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.

South Africa: Children’s Constitutional Rights

– The new Constitution gave children rights which they should use to prepare themselves for the challenges of the future.

Stolen Dreams

– 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

– 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

– 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

– A report on child labor in the sugarcane plantations of El Salvador.

Child Labor in Pakistan

– 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)
(February, 1996)