child labor and slavery?

Question

I am doing a project in school informing my peers on the problem of child labor and slavey. I am looking for certain facts, statistics, or the average life of a child suffering living in slavery. Your help would be greatly appreciated! Any information would be helpful. I really would like to inform some of my peers who live in a bubble so unexposed to the rest of the world.

Answer 1

I hate the fact that every time I want to buy something it's not from America. Americans need to put their foot down and hold these companies accountable.

I don't know if Levi Strauss has violated any child labor laws, but it's truly a shame that there are NO Levi factories any longer in the United States. Since they closed the last one a few years ago, I literally have not bought levis.

If people speak with their wallets, companies will listen. But, that won't happen and I can't do it myself although I try my hardest.

The United Nations claims to help people across the globe, well instead of bashing America they need to get off their butts and do something about child labor around the world.



http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13849
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/01/08/levi.s.closing.ap/

Answer 2

I have seen child labor and slavery in the Philippines and Mexico.
The young are recruited and contracts are signed by the parents for a meager fee and they sell their children into slavery.
The practice was big England and the United States in the past but England abolished slavery before the Civil War in the U.S.
1860-1865...but there are still sweat shops in every country in the world. Mostly by illegal immigrants but poor Citiazens who really need the job.
Look at the migrant workers and I rest my case. The whole family works..dad, mom and children of all ages...for very little pay and no benefits..yes, this is done in the rural areas and in our big cities..poverty and ignornace breeds this child labor and slavery.

Answer 3

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company operates a rubber plantation in Liberia which is the focus of a global campaign called Stop Firestone. Workers on the plantation are expected to fulfill an unreasonably high production quota or their wages will be halved. As a result, many workers are forced to bring children to work. The International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit against Firestone in November 2005 on behalf of current child laborers and their parents who were also child laborers on the plantation.

The cocoa industry has been under consistent criticism for years over child labor in West Africa, especially Côte d'Ivoire. In July 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund filed suit against the Nestle, Archer Daniels Midland, and Cargill companies in Federal District Court in Los Angeles on on behalf of a class of Malian children who were trafficked from Mali into the Ivory Coast and forced to work twelve to fourteen hours a day with no pay, little food and sleep, and frequent beatings. The three children acting as class representative plaintiffs are proceeding anonymously, as John Does, because of feared retaliation by the farm owners where they worked. The complaint alleges their involvement in the trafficking, torture, and forced labor of children who cultivate and harvest cocoa beans which the companies import from Africa.