September 2012 - Page 6 of 11 - International Initiative to End Child Labor

In Child Labor News, child soldiers Posted September 18, 2012

Sudan: UN-African mission applauds Darfur – United Nations News Center

Child soldiers (file photo). Photo: Gabriel Galwak/IRIN. 16 September 2012 – The joint United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has hailed the [...]

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In Agriculture, child labor, Child labor enforcement, child labor in agriculture, child labor livestock, Child Labor News, Children in the Fields, Girls in child labor, Hazardous Labor, U.S. News, worst forms child labor Posted September 18, 2012

USA-Nebraska: Valentine auction sale barn hit with 26 child labor violations – Record

The Department of Labor opened an investigation of the sale barn that October and discovered 26 violations of the child labor laws. The sale barn allowed five minors to herd cattle, employed [...]

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In Child Labor News, child soldiers Posted September 15, 2012

Global: Ending the recruitment of child soldiers – ReliefWeb

The newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary-General for children and armed conflict, Leila Zerrougui, called for greater protection of children [...]

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In Agriculture, child labor, child labor in agriculture, Child labor in tobacco, Child Labor News, Children in the Fields, Hazardous Labor, U.S. News, worst forms child labor Posted September 14, 2012

USA-NC: Loophole in US child labor law allows children’s exposure to tobacco nicotine – HRW

In eastern North Carolina, HRW researchers interviewed children as young as 14 who worked in tobacco, and recent news reports describe children as young as nine and 10...