Showing posts with label child labor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child labor. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Daily Headlines: February 2, 2016
* Dominican Republic: A group of U.S. rabbis who recently visited the Dominican Republic condemned the country’s immigration laws that left “stateless” tens of thousands of residents of Haitian background.
* Puerto Rico: Puerto Rican officials presented a restructuring plan that would cut its debt from $49.2 billion to $26.5 billion, while the debt issue will likely be discussed at a meeting scheduled today between President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
* Venezuela: Problems at Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA are to blame for Pastor Maldonado likely being out of Formula 1 racing.
* Brazil: Child labor in Brazil dropped by 43% over the past decade according to new government statistics.
YouTube Source – AFP (Video uploaded on November 2015).
Online Sources – Al Jazeera America, Bloomberg, Reuters, Autoweek
Friday, April 17, 2015
Daily Headlines: April 17, 2015
* Chile: Tens of thousands of university students marched in Chile yesterday to protest against growing corruption scandals and to call for stronger education reform.
* Brazil: Police in Rio de Janeiro evicted 100 squatters from a building that was supposed to be converted into a luxury hotel for the 2016 Olympics.
* Argentina: Argentine minister Daniel Filmus announced that the government started legal proceedings to prevent British firms from oil drilling near the disputed Falkland Islands.
* Mexico: Approximately 2.5 million children reportedly work in Mexico including nearly one out of every five farmworkers.
YouTube Source – euronews
Online Sources – Bloomberg, The Globe and Mail, Latin American Herald Tribune, BBC News
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Daily Headlines: October 15, 2014
* Latin America: Twenty-five Latin American and Caribbean countries signed an agreement pledging to abolish child labor throughout the region.
* Brazil: Are Brazilian presidential polls like the recent one that put challenger Aécio Neves ahead of incumbent Dilma Rousseff “inaccurate and misleading”?
* Colombia: Proceedings began this week in a British court where more than one hundred Colombian farmers are suing BP over alleged environmental damages.
* Mexico: A new survey in Mexico found that over half of respondents cut down on the consumption of sugary beverages after a new tax on soft drinks went into effect.
Video Source – International Labour Organization via YouTube (Video from 2005).
Online Sources – The Guardian; LAHT; Xinhua; BBC News; The Latin Americanist
Monday, July 7, 2014
Daily Headlines: July 7, 2014
* Bolivia: President Evo Morales is expected to sign into law a bill that would legalize child labor for kids as young as ten-years-old even though it may be against international treaties Bolivia has agreed to.
* Argentina: Some Argentine victims of sexual abuse by priests are “pained” that Pope Francis will meet with six European victims of abuse but not with any from his country of birth.
* Cuba: A Cuban opposition group claimed that nearly one thousand arrests were made “for political reasons” on the island in June including weekly detentions of Guillermo Fariñas and “physical aggression” against the Ladies in White.
* Honduras: Officials believe that the odds of survival for eight miners trapped in a collapse gold mine in Honduras are slim and “only a miracle would let us rescue them alive.”
Video Source – Vice News via YouTube
Online Sources – NBC News; Huffington Post; GlobalPost; SBS
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Nicaraguan Child Workers Face Harsh Reality
June 12th was the World Day Against Child Labor and according to the International Labor Organization (ILO) 215 million children worldwide are involved in child labor.
Research by the ILO has found a decrease in the number of child workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nevertheless, approximately 5.7 million children (and estimated one in ten minors) throughout the region work. Most of these children work in agriculture yet a few of them work in risky occupations such as fireworks manufacturing and garbage dumps.
The following video via Journeyman Pictures examines the difficulties of several Nicaraguan children working in mining quarries and as vendors in markets. The film highlights the push by some authorities to convince child laborers to give up their work and instead go to school. Yet these kids tend to continue working in order to provide for the basic needs of their impoverished family or uncooperative school officials prevent them:
In the next few days we will look at child labor in other parts of the Americas including minors who are exploited sexually or become child soldiers.
Video Source – YouTube via Journeyman Pictures
Online Sources - International Labor Organization, United Nations
Research by the ILO has found a decrease in the number of child workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nevertheless, approximately 5.7 million children (and estimated one in ten minors) throughout the region work. Most of these children work in agriculture yet a few of them work in risky occupations such as fireworks manufacturing and garbage dumps.
The following video via Journeyman Pictures examines the difficulties of several Nicaraguan children working in mining quarries and as vendors in markets. The film highlights the push by some authorities to convince child laborers to give up their work and instead go to school. Yet these kids tend to continue working in order to provide for the basic needs of their impoverished family or uncooperative school officials prevent them:
In the next few days we will look at child labor in other parts of the Americas including minors who are exploited sexually or become child soldiers.
Video Source – YouTube via Journeyman Pictures
Online Sources - International Labor Organization, United Nations
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