[According to the International Labour Organization’s 2015 report, around 120 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour around the world – boys and girls in this age group are almost equally affected.
On the World Day Against Child Labour, child labourers from Pakistan, Lebanon, and Sudan share their stories and their hopes for the future with Al Jazeera.]
Story and photographs | AL JAZEERA
Child Labor Endemic Around the Globe | AL JAZEERA
India: Highest Number of Working Children in the World | AL JAZEERA
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[The number of enslaved fisherman found on a remote Indonesian island has now reached nearly 550, after a fact-finding team returned for a single day to make sure no one had been left behind nearly a week after a dramatic rescue.
An in-depth investigation by The Associated Press published last month led to the discovery of massive rights abuses in the island village of Benjina and surrounding waters. The report traced slave-caught seafood from there to Thailand where it can then enter the supply chains of some of America’s biggest supermarket chains and retailers.
Many of the men interviewed said they were tricked or even kidnapped before being put on boats in Thailand and taken to Indonesia. They were forced to work almost non-stop under horrendous conditions, some brutally beaten by their Thai captains when they were sick or caught resting.]
Vague laws and a disenfranchised poor has made India ground zero for human trafficking. By one estimate, one child goes missing every eight minutes in the country, of which nearly half are never found. That’s half a million children currently at sea, according to the Indian government. Life for these kids is bleak: a best-case scenario might be domestic servitude, in a home where it’s forbidden to sit down and rest. Many others — mostly girls — are forced to prostitute themselves. Read the full article | TheWorldPost for Huffington Post
Casey Allred became one of the many activists fighting to change it. Along with Chris Davis, a film director, he traveled to the red light districts and brothels where girls are kept. The two hope to release a documentary built from the footage they captured, with the aim to put pressure on the government to act.Their documentary is called Stolen Innocence.
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