Sentences with phrase «child labor conditions»

Abdelaziz strives to expose harsh child labor conditions as a result of the Egyptian economic crisis in Menya's Kids.

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Since you always have a choice of where you spend your money, even though some of us conveniently forget uncomfortable truths, Girlfriend Collective's factory uses no forced or child labor, mandates fair working hours and safe conditions, pays living wages, and allows workers to unionize.

In addition, they note that overall labor market conditions are important, particularly for children from less advantaged family backgrounds.

Why does this bother you SO much when many of you continually buy products made in sweat shops where workers (including children) labor in inhumane conditions?

With this new national standard, child labor will be prohibited, migrant workers will be protected from exploitation and safe working conditions will be enforced.

Companies shouldn't be forced to comply to child labor laws, or have ethical work conditions.

In fact this led to employing quite small children and to extremely long hours of labor in quite terrible conditions.

It contains no stories drawn from the thousands of mothers, children, labor activists and university workers who have been «disappeared» or slain because of their efforts to improve living conditions.

And how well did that work for slaves the first 300 years, child labor exploited and coal miners and factory workers suffering horrific working conditions and safety issues in the early 1900's, women still fighting the glass ceiling that exists, etc.?

For decades, the chocolate industry has been accused of utilizing child labor for cacao harvesting operations that subject children to horrific working conditions and regular beatings.

First of all, the government has responded to justifiable public concern over the years with the enactment of legislation governing child labor, minimum wage, health and safety conditions, overtime pay, and other labor practices.

@Mike from CT, «I think what you meant to say it hasn't been illegal... but when was child labor, in your mind, ever the correct thing to do, under factory conditions (not chores)?»

You must be mistaken... why, the conservatives HAD to be at the forefront of assuring the rights of freed slaves, ending the deliberate government policy of destroying native cultures, extending the vote to ex-slaves and women, ending child labor, creating safer and better working conditions for laborers, etc?

Governments passed legislation against child labor and required sanitary and safe working conditions.

Legislation to shorten hours of labor and improve sanitary conditions for men, women, and children employed in mines and factories was indebted chiefly to Evangelicals.

Fistula is a condition resulting from prolonged, obstructed labor; it is typically due to lack of timely access to medical care (it's most prevalent in rural Africa and parts of Asia) and usually results in a stillborn child and a hole in the tissue of the bladder and / or rectum (due to prolonged pressure from the baby) that results in the uncontrollable passage of urine and / or feces.

krispin and i have long been on an anti-sweat shop kick but have been too lazy to research child / slave labor conditions in the food industry.

Today's global economic and labor conditions are changing rapidly, with some positive, but many negative implications for women's health and livelihoods, as well as that of their children and families.

The audit by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office knocked the state Department of Labor for inadequate monitoring of work conditions for child performers, insufficient enforcement of requirements that their earnings be put into a trust and shortfalls with how work permits were given out.

Like other identical pairs, they have a favorite twin story to relate: When Pam went into labor with her first child, Tami, miles away and unaware of her sister's condition, felt pains in her stomach.

Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers School of Social Work, who authored the study.

Spurred by the extreme inequities of the Gilded Age when industrial barons like the Carnegies and Rockefellers amassed huge fortunes while the majority of the country suffered in impoverished conditions, the Progressive Movement began to address issues such as child labor and fair wages.

Where are they made and the working conditions, and use of child labor in third world countries.

In this photo - essay, black - and - white images introduce the lives of children who labor under harsh and dangerous conditions in jobs such as miners, garbage pickers, sex workers, and brick haulers.

Others are a result of child labor and poverty - type conditions.

One European company indicates that they «maintain control over the social and medical aspects in our workshops (i.e. working conditions, child labor)».

In addition the company is committed to building long - term relationships with manufacturers and adheres to fair trade labor practices, guaranteeing good working conditions with decent wages, no child labor, and the promotion of handicapped people and women coming from underprivileged areas.

The distribution of domestic labor among mothers, fathers, and school - age children in 153 families was examined with attention to three conditions that might facilitate or constrain the distribution of tasks: familial earner status, child gender, and «social time» (defined here as the distinction between weekdays and weekends).

These conditions are associated with a wide range of health issues, including unintentional injuries, respiratory illnesses like asthma and radon - induced lung cancer, lead poisoning, result in lost school days for children, as well as lost productivity in the labor force.

The terms of the Young Living Supplier Code of Conduct specifically requires all suppliers and / or subcontractors to verify / certify that no raw materials, finished product, etc. purchased by Young Living has been manufactured, assembled, and packaged through the direct or indirect use of forced labor, bonded labor, child labor, or unsafe working conditions.