Read the letter sent by over a hundred organizations to EPA administrator Scott Pruitt, opposing changes proposed to the Worker Protection Standard and Certification of Pesticide Applicators rule.
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About 90 million carats of rough diamonds and 1,600 tons of gold are mined for jewelry every year, generating over US $300 billion in revenue.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has signaled its intention to review and roll back key protections for children exposed to pesticides in American agriculture.
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For years, the authorities in Lagos have used the bulldozer to deal with informal settlements of rural migrants to the city. Journalist OluTimehin Adegbeye suggests that this is precisely the way to ensure that much of Lagos will remain a slum.
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EPA head Scott Pruitt has proposed rolling back protections aimed at guarding child farmworkers from pesticide poisoning. Here's why this is a truly terrible idea.
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"Child Abuse - down, down!" Indian schoolchildren chant to protect their peers from sexual exploitation on the Bharat Yatra marching throughout India.
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Four years after his death, Robin shows up in India.
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This week we have witnessed an American President turn his back on 800,000 young people by revoking DACA
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The 100 Million campaign aims to support the largest youth to youth mobilisation in history to end this exploitation.
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Media Voices is excited to announce sweeping updates to our website, as well as changes to our monthly newsletter proceedings.
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For over thirty years, Kailash Satyarthi, with the support of his wife Sumedha, led a singular and sometimes solitary movement to put an end to the scourge of child labor, human slavery and trafficking.
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Today we are on our way to the city to film what we can of a raid and rescue mission of fifty children enslaved and hidden in a bangle factory.
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Morning starts for the boys at Bal Ashram with exercise, prayer, laughter and yoga practice on a beautiful roof terrace above their dormitory. Yoga is taught by a former student and by Sumedha Kailash who both runs Bal ashram and is the mother figure for all these rescued boys.
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Mending broken souls and bodies is the mission of the child rehabilitation center at Bal Ashram in Viratnagar, Rajasthan. Once child laborers have been found and rescued, a long process begins.
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Len met Noman and his older brother Rizwan at Bal Ashram, while filming at the home for boys rescued from trafficking and slavery in Rajasthan, India. They had just arrived from Delhi and were still in a relative state of shock at their new surroundings.
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Standing outside a police station in Jaipur, Rajasthan, waiting to film a carefully planned raid and rescue of children trafficked from the poorest areas of India to make bangle bracelets for the tourist industry, I am reminded of being offered these just yesterday touring Jaipur’s Amber Fort.
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It is the day Kailash and Sumedha arrive at Bal Ashram. As Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, yesterday Kailash met with world leaders at six different locations and today has flown from Bangladesh to Delhi, driven four hours from Delhi to Viratnagar and Bal Ashram and is now engulfed in boys as the car arrives. No rest for the weary – though “weary” is never a description for Kailash or his wife, Sumedha.
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There is a small boy we have noticed at Bal Ashram from day one. He does not jog around the exercise yard with the others.
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Vikky, a former child slave growing up at Bal Ashram.
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