Garment production in India shut down abruptly as a result of Covid 19. Multinational companies who skipped out on their obligations to pay for work already ordered made matters much worse. The Indian government appealed for employers to “be kind” to their desperate employees. Unfortunately, kindness is discretionary.
Read MoreWhen I met Mariela Montez, age ten, she was working with her father picking onions for a penny a pound outside Eagle Pass, Texas.
She had the flu and could barely speak. She had risen at 4am and would work twelve hours…
Read MoreKailash Satyarthi joins numerous Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and world leaders calling for 20% of coronavirus pandemic aid to be earmarked for poor children.
Read MoreWhen the coronavirus hit Kenya, all schools closed abruptly. Kenyan Schoolhouse kids, from the poorest and most vulnerable of families, were sent home. To help provide emergency food aid, see gofundme.com/f/kenyan-schoolhouse-at-home. Len tells the story of Sylvie and the beginnings of Kenyan Schoolhouse.
Read MoreRoy would say, about the behavior of men who put money first, " He wouldn't pay a nickel to see an ant eat a bale of hay."
Read MoreKenyan Schoolhouse kids continue to excel, given a chance.
Read MoreTwenty-two years since the Harkin-Engel Protocol, the absolute number of child laborers in cocoa has actually increased. Find out why. Maybe doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the problem?
Read MoreFlights 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.
Read MoreTwenty years of filming the effort to eradicate child labor culminates in the world premiere of Children of Bal Ashram this coming Thursday
Read MoreTwo exhibitions featuring the work of Media Voices for Children open on Martha’s Vineyard and in Key West.
Read MoreMedia 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.
Read MoreFormer 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreToday is Universal Children’s Day - a chance to think about what childhood means, and what we owe our children.
Read MoreTwo photographs - one hundred years apart. Child labor is still a reality in U.S. fields, due to a crucial loophole in the law.
Read MoreGinning 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?
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreWhy 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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