Child Labor Resources

Key Pages of Interest

• Get Involved with GoodWeave
• Child Labor and the Rug Industry
• Child Labor and Human Trafficking Laws
• Child Labor Quick Facts

 

Organizations Fighting Child Labor and Human Trafficking

GoodWeave is not fighting the battle against child labor and human trafficking alone. For information on the work of other organizations fighting child labor, please visit the sites of:

• Child Labor Coalition
• Global March Against Child Labour
• International Labor Rights Forum
• The Project to End Human Trafficking
• Stop Trafficking Now
• US Fund for UNICEF

 

Documenting Child Labor

GoodWeave has partnered with a number of notable photographers, filmmakers, museum curators and other documentarians to generate greater awareness of the horrors of child labor. View the netherworld of child labor through the powerful lens of these documentarians at the following sites:

• Not My Life
• U. Roberto Romano
  
• Stolen Childhoods
• David Parker/Before Their Time
• Invisible: Slavery Today
• Media Voices for Children
• The CNN Freedom Project
• Faces of Freedom

 

Teacher Resources

GoodWeave has created a one-page information sheet for use in educating elementary school children on the problem of child labor in the rug industry. In addition, GoodWeave encourages teachers to tap into resources at GoodWeave.org, in particular the children's stories, the children's slideshow, videos, and information on child labor.  These outside links are also recommended to help teachers develop lesson plans:

• Five Thousand Years of Slavery Teachers' Guide
• Information by UNICEF
• Cyber School Bus
• Speak Truth to Power curriculum
• Activities and Resources to Educate Kids about Child Labor in Pakistan’s Carpet Industry, by Australian Catholic University
  

 

Kids Against Child Labor

Whether at home or in home room, kids are acting up and speaking out to end child labor. Click on the links below to read about youth working in their communities to combat the exploitation of their peers:

• Activating Young Agents of Change, a Q&A with teacher Ron Adams of Operation Day's Work
• "A Day in the Life of a Persian Carpet," an award-winning short story by twelve-year-old Zipporah van Oldenbarneveld
• High School Makes "Ripples of Hope," how Pam O'Brien is empowering her students to become global activists
• Child Labor Reading List, books on the subject of child labor for readers from Grade 2 to college and above
• Kids' Rug Gallery (below), featuring beautiful child-labor-free designs for kids of all ages
  

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This list is by no means comprehensive. To suggest a link, please contact info@goodweave.org.