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“I wasn’t asked to work. I wanted to work to help my family,” said Maria Mandujano, a former child farmworker-cum-activist with Student Action for Farmworkers and college student, who spoke on a [...]

Last week, the Child Labor Coalition, working in partnership with Human Rights Watch, presented a Congressional briefing on the CARE Act, a pending bill to extend the protections of federal law [...]

On February 9th, 2010, U.S. First Lady, Michelle Obama launched a national campaign, “Let’s Move” in an effort to fight against childhood obesity. With national statistics showing that one in [...]

In all the years that I worked to advance children’s rights, particularly the right to be free of harsh labor at too early an age, two children stand out in my memory. One was an eight year old [...]