Browsing issue: Labor

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Ecuador: The New Law of the Jungle

Pulitzer Center's Kelly Hearn is in Ecuador covering what has been dubbed Ecuador's Rainforest Chernobyl and it could turn out to be one of the biggest legal environmental battles ever fought....

Bolivia

Environment, Indigenous peoples, Labor

Witnessed: 297 times

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Human trafficking, child labor and exploitation in India and Cambodia

This promotional video showcases the problems of human trafficking and child labor in India and Cambodia and shows how Lotus Outreach International is working to combat them.

Cambodia, India

Children's rights, Human trafficking, Labor

Witnessed: 225 times

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Poverty in Haiti spawns child slavery

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-d...

Haiti

Child labor, Poverty, Slavery & forced labor

Witnessed: 208 times

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Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: Harvesting Oranges (part 2)

Early in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp in South Lebanon....

Lebanon, Middle East and Caucasus

Discrimination, Labor, Refugees

Witnessed: 149 times

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Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: Harvesting Oranges (part 1)

Early in the morning, between 5 and 6am, a wave of footsteps and whispering voices can be heard in the narrow alleys of Bourj ash-Shamali Refugee Camp in South Lebanon....

Lebanon, Middle East and Caucasus

Discrimination, Labor, Refugees

Witnessed: 157 times

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Poverty forces Afghan children into smuggling

Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures.

They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home.

Afghanistan, Pakistan

Child labor, Food & health & development, Poverty

Witnessed: 119 times

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Hunger and child labour on the rise in Burma

A year on from the Saffron revolution, the people of a once-prosperous nation are still mired in poverty.

According to the United Nations, the average daily pay in Myanmar is $0.67.

Burma

Child labor, Freedom of opinion & expression, Poverty

Witnessed: 278 times

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Coalition of Immokalee Workers: "With These Hands..."

With these hands I demand the future that poverty wages have stolen from me....

United States

Corporations and human rights, Labor, Slavery & forced labor

Witnessed: 161 times

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The plight of South Asian migrant workers

Many South Asian workers are leaving their homes and families for the promise of money and security in Singapore, only to discover they have been duped and no jobs exist.

Bangladesh, Singapore

Bonded labor, Corporations and human rights, Slavery & forced labor

Witnessed: 318 times

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