Thursday, June 9, 2011

Sunday, June 12: World Day Against Child Labor

Thanks to Yolanda Tarango and the CSJ's of Orange for this information.

Sunday, June 12th is World Day Against Child Labor
From the International Initiative on Exploitative Child Labor (IIECL): 
Please join in prayer on this day as people around the world gather in solidarity to pray for children who are globally enslaved into labor and exploited.  CLICK HERE for prayer service.

Children continue to be the most vulnerable in our world’s society. While we live in an era of unprecedented global economic integration, competitive pressures feed the need for an ever-cheaper supply of labor, and child labor is the cheapest of all. The work of children ranges from "work" that does not interfere with the education and development of a child to exhaustive, dangerous or illegal "labor" that is abusive and exploitative; including child slavery and trafficking, prostitution, soldiering or hazardous work that places the child’s health, safety or morals at risk.

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