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Latin America and the Middle East

There are 13 million (8.8%) of children in child labor in Latin America and the Caribbean

Mon Mar 16 2015

Child labor among girls is falling…

Child labor among girls fell by 40% between 2000 and 2012, compared to 25% for boys. Source:

Mon Mar 16 2015

CLC-Member Human Rights Watch: No Virginia, Tobacco Fields are Not a Place for Children

By Zama Coursen-Neff, Human Rights Watch “Are you saying my parents were stupid?” From

Fri Feb 6 2015

CLC-Member the National Consumers League Condemns the Defeat of a Child Labor Bill in Virginia

For immediate release: February 4, 2015 Contact: Ben Klein, National Consumers

Wed Feb 4 2015

NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE PRESS RELEASE : Move to ban youth work in Virginia tobacco fields welcome by advocates

Washington, DC—Last week’s introduction of a bill in the Virginia state legislature to prohibit

Wed Jan 21 2015

Ending Child Slavery…All Together Now!

by Jill Christianson, National Education Association On a sunny day late in September, I tagged

Wed Nov 19 2014

GoodWeave’s Nina Smith on Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi–an engineer of freedom

[This article originally appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on October 21, 2014] By Nina

Wed Oct 29 2014

The Philippines

The Philippines has 2.9 million child laborers but in its 2013 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child

Wed Oct 22 2014

CLC PRESS RELEASE: Child Labor Coalition applauds progress in child labor remediation suggested by US government’s 2013 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

For immediate release: October 14, 2014 Contact: Reid Maki, (202) 207-2820, reidm@nclnet.org

Fri Oct 17 2014

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