Our Top Ten Ways to Learn More about:
- Ways to End Child Labor
- Child Labor
- Iqbal Masih
- and "A Bullet Can't Kill A Dream: A School for Iqbal"
THANK YOU to ALL who support this campaign to end child labor. We have made great progress
raising young voices while raising awareness globally about the complex issues of child labor.
The media is helping us big time to spread the word about actions young people
and others can take now to help poor, working children to help themselves.
(this list is not prioritized because ALL media listed below are equally informative.)
1. Amnesty International USA's new book:
Our World, Our Rights: Teaching About Rights and Responsibilities in the Elementary School
(A handbook for learning about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) copyright 2000
Edited by Janet Schmidt, Patrick Manson, Tricia Windschitl
ISBN: 1-887204-18-0
Email: krobinson@aiusa.org
2. Dr. David Parker's book:
Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Poor Working Children
Reading level: Young Adult
School & Library Binding - 112 pages (November 1997)
Lerner Pub Group; ISBN: 0822529602; Dimensions (in inches): 1.04 x 9.34 x 9.02
3. Susan Kuklin's book:
Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Labor
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover - 144 pages (October 1998)
Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; ISBN: 0805054596; Dimensions (in inches): 0.64 x 9.30 x 7.67
4. The GLOBAL SWEATSHOP: A Two Part Televised Series on Child Labor
to be broadcast on Mass Interaction (formerly MCET) on:
Global Sweatshop
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This two-part series teaches students strategies for combating global child labor. We spotlight
one such youth effort at the Broadmeadows Middle School in Quincy, MA, where students have taken
action on this controversial issue. Learn about Iqbal Masih, a young Pakistani boy who was sold
into slavery as a bonded laborer at the age of four, and was later killed for speaking out against
child labor. Join us for an empowering series.
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Appearing on these programs are taped interviews with: Carol Bellamy, UNICEF;
U.S. Senators Tom Harkin and Ted Kennedy; World Cup Soccer star and Captain of
the U.S. Women's Olympic Soccer Team Julie Foudy; Dr. David Parker; and the
student leaders of these kids campaigns - "A School for Iqbal,"
"The Kids Online March Against Child Labor," http://www.globalmarch-us.org
and "Operation Day's Work-USA." http://odw.info.usaid.gov/
To order copies of this 2 part video The Global Sweatshop, Program 2k052 :
It's best that the interested parties contact Chris Kontoes directly. Cost varies
dependant upon if they are members of Mass Interaction (formerly MCET).
"That series is VERY popular and I often receive requests for it.
Send requests directly to me via this email or the number listed in my
contact information.
Thanks take care,
Chris"
Chris Kontoes
Customer Relations Coordinator
Mass Interaction (a Quasi-Public Authority of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts)
Where Government, Technology, and Learning Converge
voice: 617-252-5700 x5763 | fax: 617-252-5718 |
5. American Federation of Teachers Union's curriculum guide, resources and video kit for teachers in all
grades called "Lost Futures: the Problem of Child Labor." For $15 teachers can order the curriculum
which includes a 15 minute video and a packed three ring binder, filled with activities and fact sheets.
The video concludes with a five minute summary of the "School for Iqbal" campaign. Over 1,500 of the AFT
child labor kits have been sold already. For more information, please go to:
http://www.aft.org/international/child/video.html
6. Kirsty Murray's book:
Tough Stuff (copyright February 2000)
Paperback - 156 pages (February 2000)
Allen & Unwin children's books; ISBN: 1864489294 (available in the UK)
7. Pulitzer Prize winning photo journalist Stan Grossfeld's book:
Lost Futures: Our Forgetten Children (U.S. children and non-U.S.)
Paperback - 184 pages 1 Ed edition (April 1997)
Aperture; ISBN: 0893816965; Dimensions (in inches): 0.86 x 12.35 x 9.42
8. Children in Our Fields (U.S. children)
campaign web site: http://www.afop.org/children/children.shtml
Child labor only focus on improving child labor standards in agriculture among children who function as
hired workers. Also includes a youth employment and training component (providing educational stipends
and alternative educational support for children). Not focused at all on children who work for their
parents on family farms
9. Student led, new campaign to attack poverty and promote education indeveloping countries:
Operation Day's Work - USA (modeled after the Norwegian campaign).
Students have chosen to help children to help themselves in Haiti and El Salvador
in this new campaign's first two years. Any school in the U.S. can join.
http://odw.info.usaid.gov/
10. Student "Online March" to pressure governments around the world to "ratify" the new, international
child labor laws known as ILO 182. The ILO is a wing of the United Nations which is responsible for
workers of all ages in all countries. The U.S. ratified ILO 182 last December when the U.S. Senate
voted 96-0 to send the treaty to President Clinton. President Clinton signed 182 into U.S. law.
Find out how young people lobbied Chairperson of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Jesse Helms,
Vice President Al Gore, and U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman by going to this web site:
http://www.globalmarch-us.org/formrslt_new.htm or http://www.globalmarch-us.org
Say, has your country ratified ILO 182 yet?
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