Article: Asian nations to continue fighting child domestic labor

Article: Feature: Long march to free Philippine child ...
Xinhua News Agency;  January 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... march to free Philippine child domestic labor from "virtual prison cell ... for legal prohibition of child domestic labor, Renelyn knew that she could ... of hope. Like half of the child domestic labor, Renelyn comes from a family ...

Article: 10 million children exploited in domestic labor, ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 11, 2004 ;     672 words ... ... June 11 (Xinhua) -- Child domestic labor, a widespread and growing ... because of the very nature of child domestic labor, which is not only widely ... report. "It is vital that child domestic labor, so often neglected because ...

Article: INDONESIA: VIRTUAL SLAVE LABOR AWAITS CHILD ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  April 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... how many "pembantu," as child domestic workers are called, are ... as many as 2.6 million child domestic workers in Indonesia. They ... deplores the fact that child domestic employment was not included ... would have liked to see domestic labor by children below the age ...

Article: Child domestic workers gather in Bangladesh to mark ...
AP Worldstream;  June 12, 2004 ;     640 words ... ... Bangladesh Parliament. They carried signs like "Stop Child Domestic Labor" and "Please Do Not Oppress Us" to demand an ... ILO concluded that "too many children who are in domestic labor are victims of exploitation." "As they clean ...

Article: Life as a Child Domestic Worker in Haiti
Journal of Haitian Studies;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... child workers in the world are child domestic workers (CDW). The International ... media coverage to the issue of child domestic labour. The Creole term "restavk ... became iconic to the topic of child domestic labour. Some of the central ...

Article: Indonesia: Protect Child Domestic Workers
Targeted News Service;  February 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Shadows: Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia," documents ... and sexually abused. "Indonesia's child domestic workers work longer and harder than ... to establish new policies to protect child domestic workers or enforce existing laws or ...

Article: Shackled dreams, lost learning: The costs of child ...
M2 Presswire;  June 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... dreams, lost learning: The costs of child domestic labour(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS ... America, nearly 2 million girls are child domestic labourers. Like millions of other ... Caribbean (* ). The ILO considers child domestic workers one of the most vulnerable ...