Flights to the Northeast are filled with people of color fleeing this government - what the Trump Administration’s anti-immigration policy looks like on the ground - or rather in the air.
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Twenty years of filming the effort to eradicate child labor culminates in the world premiere of Children of Bal Ashram this coming Thursday
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Investments in infrastructure means investment in children.
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Two exhibitions featuring the work of Media Voices for Children open on Martha’s Vineyard and in Key West.
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Media Voices for Children releases its latest documentary, Children of Bal Ashram. The world premiere of this film will be March 21st at The Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.
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Former child laborers are raised and educated to be activists against child labor at Bal Ashram, the children’s home established by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi and his wife, Sumedha.
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A new interactive photo exhibit featuring the work of U.R. Romano examines the child labor hidden in the supply chains of popular products we all use.
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Today is Universal Children’s Day - a chance to think about what childhood means, and what we owe our children.
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Two photographs - one hundred years apart. Child labor is still a reality in U.S. fields, due to a crucial loophole in the law.
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Ginning up the fears of his base, President Trump fantasizes about a caravan of asylum-seekers “invading” the country, a threat he is apparently prepared to meet by wasting the time and resources of active-duty military personnel. But who are these people really? Drug-dealers and murderers, or families fleeing gang violence?
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The Courts and Congress should hold Trump and his coterie accountable. Despite their protestations, this isn’t policy for the benefit of America’s security, this is criminal behavior that should not go unpunished.
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Why would a white person call the cops because a 12-year-old black boy is mowing the lawn in her neighborhood? It would be funny, if it weren’t so frightening. Is there something that could be done to stop the madness?
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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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