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New Legislation Introduced to Protect US Children Working in Tobacco Fields –Please Call Your Member of Congress and Ask them to Support

Children Don’t Belong on Tobacco Farms Act The Children Don’t Belong on Tobacco Farms Act

Mon May 11 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

Wed Oct 29 2014

CHILD LABOR COALITION PRESS RELEASE: The Child Labor Coalition applauds the selection of Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai as recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize

Washington, DC – The Child Labor Coalition (CLC), a group of 34 organizations dedicated to

Wed Oct 15 2014

Open Letter to the President: CLC Members are Joined By Other NGOs and Ask the Adminstration to Protect Child Tobacco Workers in the US

Dear Mr. President, We write to you as organizations representing millions of Americans, including

Thu Aug 28 2014

Save the Children: Border Children Need Help Now

[The following op-ed appeared in USA Today on July 29th. To view it on USA Today’s page,

Fri Aug 1 2014

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