A Child's Story

Child Labor Around the World:

A Child's Story

What is it really like to be a victim of child labor? In this part of our research you will choose (or be assigned) to read the story of a real child that has experienced what is it like to be a child laborer. After you have read the article, report on it using your Reporters Notebook.

A Child’s Story in Brazil:	http://www.un.org/works/goingon/labor/eleandra_story.html http://www.un.org/works/goingon/labor/reina_story.html
United States:	http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/magazines/story/0,6277,1042670,00.html http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/child_labor/ Read the January 24, 2003 - American Farmkids article and click on the Related Media: Listen to this story Link.
Pakistan:	http://www.iearn.org.au/clp/writeb45.htm http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=43644&SelectRegion=Central_Asia&SelectCountry=PAKISTAN
Ecuador:	http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/child_labor/ Read the January 24, 2003 - Kids and Ecuadorian Banana Plantations article and click on the Related Media: Listen to this story Link.
India:	http://www.un.org/works/goingon/india/aarti_story.html http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/finke.html http://www.iccle.org/newsletter_children/0510/index.php3 - Read "184 Child Laborers Rescued"
Costa Rica:	http://www.un.org/works/labor/labor2.html
Peru:	http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/bazan1.html
Haiti:	http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/cohen.html
The Carpet Kids of Nepal. Pakistan, and India:	http://www.fordfound.org/publications/ff_report/view_ff_report_detail.cfm?report_index=287
Cambodia:	http://www.un.org/works/children/children2.html http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/warren.html
Kenya:	http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/child_labor/kenya/index.asp?article=coffee_pickers
Turkey:	http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/child_labor/turkey/index.asp?article=streets
Indonesia:	http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/child_labor/indonesia/index.asp?article=jermal
Mexico:	http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/child_labor/mexico/index.asp?article=tobacco_fields http://www.usleap.org/Maquilas/Mattel/Rubie's%20de%20M%E9xico/MattelNYTJune12.htm
Phillipines:	http://www.iccle.org/newsletter_children/index.php3#5 - Read "A Tale of Two Children"
Ivory Coast (Africa):	http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2042474.stm
El Salvador:	http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0610-01.htm
Thailand	http://www.newint.org/easier-english/child_labour/sawai.html
Colombia	http://www.newint.org/easier-english/child_labour/pablo.html
Nepal	http://www.newint.org/easier-english/child_labour/kumar.html
Senegal	http://www.newint.org/easier-english/child_labour/assane.html
Nicaragua	http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press516.htm