Swords Into Plowshares child labor Archives

June 9, 2015

NO to Child Labour—Yes to Quality Education

Posted 4:42pm

by Nathan Jumper The following statement was made in June 2014 and is attributable to the President of the General Assembly at the United Nations (UN): Each year on June 12, the United Nations family observes World Day Against Child Labour. 168 million children still engage in illegal forms of labour, mostly in the informal… Read more »

June 3, 2014

Red Card to Child Labour Campaign

Posted 6:43am

by Grace Segers On June 12, the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations will be supporting the International Labour Organization’s Red Card to Child Labour campaign. The ILO reports there are an estimated 168 million child workers in the world. These children suffer abuse as sweatshop workers, miners, child soldiers, sex workers, or in other… Read more »

January 8, 2014

Human Trafficking Awareness Day

Posted 10:04am

January is human trafficking awareness month and January 11 is human trafficking awareness day. The year 2014 marks the 151th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. President Abraham Lincoln, upon signing the Emancipation Proclamation said, “I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper.” Because of the… Read more »

June 11, 2013

When I was younger …

Posted 6:15pm

by Marissa Costello When I was younger, I use to joke with my parents that they were forcing me to do child labor for them by carrying two heavy loads of laundry or soda packages. But child labor is really not something that should not be taken lightly when so many children in the world… Read more »

February 22, 2012

A visit from Central New York

Posted 7:59am

The Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations is hosting a seminar from the Central New York Presbytery Partnership Group. Twenty-one students and four adults have gathered to explore issues related to child labor and the trafficking of children in labor. Opening worship celebrated what children should be able to do. Allie Naskret, field education student… Read more »

January 31, 2011

Children at risk – Sudan, Myanmar, Philippines, Gaza

Posted 2:41pm

The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict provides links to stories about children at risk in several places around the world. Singers strive for peace in new Sudan: The bumping beats of African…

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