Estimados Abogados de terminar trabajo de menor,

Para quedarse fuerte en la pelea contra trabajo de menor nosotros debemos permanecer
conectado, especialmente en la frente de juventud. Después que leer este correo
electrónico, clica aquí por favor y llena la forma. Incluso si obtuviera su información en
los Niños’el Congreso de Mundo, por favor lo llena fuera y manda lo apoya de todos
modos como nosotros tratamos de tener todos’información de s en un formato
organizado. Adelántelo a la juventud que asistió el Congreso o que quizás se interese.
Esparza la palabra porque necesitamos como muchas mentes cometidas que piensan
acerca de este asunto como posible.

Aquí está nuestro plan para la Red una vez empieza:
Durante los Niños recientes’el Congreso de Mundo en Florencia, Italia que la idea se
propuso numerosos tiempos con respecto a la necesidad para un niños’la red de s que
permitiría la juventud que es apasionada acerca de este asunto para expresar a sí mismo,
mantiene en contacto con uno al otro, y en contacto con el informe en la posición de
trabajo de menor en sus naciones. Proporcionamos una plataforma por el Centro
Internacional en los Trabajos de Menores y Educación en Washington, D.C., en el
periodístico de jovenes, Youth Network for Children’s Rights (YNCR). La meta de este
papel estaría a:

• Da a todos jóvenes alrededor del mundo que un método de expresar sus sentimientos y las ideas.
• Conecta a niños y la juventud cometió a derechos globales para niños.
• Proporciona un instrumento para esparcir el conocimiento acerca de las realidades de niños de situaciones encara.
• Salva el espacio entre niños de fondos diferentes, culturales, económicos y geográficos permitiendo un cambio de las ideas que de otro modo serían inalcanzables.
• Llega a ser el foro en línea más grande para las voces de niños y jóvenes ser oído, a pesar del idioma o la ubicación.

La idea de este periódico deberá permitir a jóvenes para: compartir las opiniones en los
asuntos que nos afectan; proponemos nuestros planes o las ideas para resolver estos
asuntos y otros problemas de mundo; y para expresarnos creativamente – como el deseo
para crear y expresarle es comunes a todas personas.

• Informes en las acciones de nacional, el estado y las administraciones municipales que afectan a niños.
• Artículos en qué niños y la juventud hacen acerca de asuntos del mundo y derechos de menores, especialmente el trabajo de menor.
• Poemas originales, los cuentos cortos, los dibujos o los pedazos artísticos.
• Pedazos del Editorial o la opinión acerca de un asunto importante, local o global

• qué nosotros hemos hecho desde que volvimos a nuestros países;
• cualquier progreso hecho en educar la comunidad, los gobiernos, los sindicatos y la sociedad civil;
• cómo nuestras perspectivas y vistas han cambiado; o
• el sigue las acciones que planeamos para llevar a cabo en nuestras comunidades o por organizaciones nacionales.

Estos son apenas sugerencias. Proponga por favor su propio y los sigue.

Una vez que suficientes contribuciones se reúnen y son traducidas al francés, el español y
el inglés, ellos serán difundidos en este E-periódico, junto con actualiza, los anuncios, y
golosinas de información.

Si hay el interés suficiente sostenido con el tiempo nosotros querríamos encontrar medios
para circular el boletín en la forma de la impresión y lo envía. Esto es muy importante
como algunos de los que necesitan ser oído por la comunidad internacional no puede
tener acceso a computadoras.

Obviamente, la Red estará abierta a niños que no hablan inglés, el francés ni el español.
*Los adultos, o acompañantes de los niños que asistieron el Congreso o los otros que
sabe cómo contactar los niños que quizás se interesen: Si en todo posible, traduce por
favor este mensaje en el idioma de los niños usted sabe y lo pasa en a ellos. También, su
traducción de sus respuestas y/o artículos en uno de estos tres idiomas se apreciaría
mucho. Si la respuesta y/o el artículo no se pueden traducir entonces nos lo manda a
nosotros indicando de todos modos qué idioma que lo está en. Encontraremos una manera
de traducirlo.

Esto será un periodico que da a escritores jóvenes la libertad creadora. Debe ser un foro
para ideas y un lugar de explorar los conceptos y las soluciones. Qué lo hará se para
aparte de otras publicaciones son que niños escriben lo, prodúzcalo, (y lo puso fuera). En
cada periodico habrá una sección para niños de responder a cualquier artículo de
ediciones previas para que ideas se pueda debatir.

Responda por favor con cualquier sugerencias o las preguntas. Espero vista de usted.

Gracias,

Emily Oliver, 16, Newtown High School, Newtown, Connecticut.
Maura Welch, 15, Christian Brothers Academy, Syracuse, New York.
Amanda Melkert, 17, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Emily Oliver, Age 16
Newtown High School
Newtown, CT, USA

Child labor is a big problem in El Salvador, according to a Washington Post article on
Thursday, June 10, 2004. In El Chaparral most of the kids work in the sugar cane
industry, which is very dangerous work. Children from the age of 5 years old are already
working with machetes and deep cuts are very common. Many children also suffer burns
from caustic fertilizer that they spread by hand. About 5,000 children younger than 18
years old do the hazardous and backbreaking work of planting or cutting sugar cane in El
Salvador. Sugar is El Salvador’s second most important agricultural product, after coffee.
Foremen on the country’s many small sugar cooperatives, which supply raw cane to
mills, “turn a blind eye” to child labor. And the big companies like Coca-Cola deny that
there is any child labor present during the sugar supply to the company. Coca-Cola is not
accused of breaking laws, but they are not doing enough to eliminate child labor in the
fields. According to the Human Rights Watch the company should “recognize its
responsibility”. Help from big companies would improve the situation. Coca-Cola just
looks at the direct supply of the sugar to the company. However, they should go all they
way back in the sugar supply chain to where they sugar starts out in the fields and not just
in the refinery.

Amanda Melkert, Age 17
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Chevy Chase, MD, USA

Kailash Satyarthi, world respected leader of the Global March Against Child Labor, an
international movement to end child labor, was born and educated in India. He went on to
earn a degree in electrical engineering. He could have had a happy and fruitful life in this
profession. However, Mr. Satyarthi saw injustice in the world. Children were used as
cheap labor by men who sought profit. Children were exploited, recruited as a
dispensable form of labor for the most dangerous forms of work conceivable. As a result
of their young sentence to a life of hard manual labor, children were being denied an
education and a chance to escape the poverty of their parents. So much is the empathy of
Mr. Satyarthi, so much is his compassion that he abandoned what would have been a very
comfortable lifestyle to go to the aid of the most defenseless. At the age of 26, Mr.
Satyarthi left his job to start a movement dedicated to freeing oppressed child laborers all
over the world. This Global March works tirelessly for the abolition of child labor and
the achievement of global education. To date, Mr. Satyarthi’s organization the South
Asian Coalition Against Child Servitude has freed over 60,000 children from the horrors
of child labor and servitude.

Besides his fearlessness to stand up and face the powerful and wrong, Mr. Satyarthi’s
ability to catch the hearts and minds of others is what makes him a leader. To hear him
speak is find a renewed sense of optimism. He embodies a kind of fervent hope and
perseverance that is so desperately lacking in most of us. He inspires people to believe in
what he stands for. He inspires people to believe in his vision for the world. He has this
uncommon ability to make people believe that justice is possible for all people, peace is
possible for all people, ignorance is not a fact of life or circumstance, abuse and
exploitation of the children is not justified by poverty, the world can change, and it must
change now in our hands to find a better way.

Emily Oliver, Age 16
Newtown High School, Newtown, CT, USA

ICCLE participated in Exhibition organized during the Annual Convention of the National Educators Association at the Washington Convention Center July 2-4, 2004. The purpose of participating in the Exhibition was primarily to expand the constituency interested in global child labor issues within the school teacher community in the U.S. ICCLE took this opportunity to create awareness of global child labor issues and aims to create an informed public opinion on children out of schools. The ICCLE exhibit included lesson plans developed by the American Federation of Teachers, the International Labor Organization’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor, and the University of Iowa’s Human Rights Center.

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The ICCLE team was led by Sudhanshu Joshi, Beth Lindley, Tares Vazquez and Fatima Latif. ICCLE made available to the interested teachers materials on child labor perpetuating poverty and provided copies of a consolidated resource list of curricula developed by a variety of organizations. This list is available on the ICCLE web site. The ICCLE team also included the editorial board of ICCLE’s child and youth monthly e- newsletter: 16-year-old Emily Oliver from Newtown High School in Connecticut; 15- year-old Maura Welch, from Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse, NY; and 17-year- old Amanda Melkert from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland. They were joined by Sharanya Joshi from Lucy Barnsley Elementary School in Rockville, MD and Nimai Joshi from Earl B. Wood Middle School in Rockville, MD. Hundreds of teachers visited the ICCLE Exhibit. In all 178 teachers signed up for future participation in teacher training and orientation on global child labor issues and to receive the ICCLE newsletters for adults and children. They also promised to forward the newsletter to their students so that they will be informed about ICCLE’s initiative with the school children in the US.

After spending time with former child laborers, three high school students have started an international youth-led newsletter called Youth Network for Children’s Rights (YNCR). The purpose of this letter is to provide a forum for children and young adults to discuss child labor, education, and civil rights issues that affect them or their local and global communities. Ideas, thoughts and opinions received from peers around the world will be translated and disseminated all over the world, bridging the gaps between cultures, creeds and countries. This newsletter will connect your students to children in poor countries, enabling them to understand each other’s aspirations. The children in the global north will be able to relate with children who do not have the opportunity to attend schools and who work as slaves. They can decide how to work together to create equal opportunities for all. Let’s start the debate. Let’s open a dialogue. Youth represent the majority of the world’s population. Let’s make this the generation of change. Your students can be part of this newsletter. They can express themselves through articles, opinions, and artistic expressions (poems, pictures, songs, etc.) Your help to make this newsletter popular among children and young adults will go along way in bringing visibility to the issues of children out of school and in the worst forms of child labor. Please help by informing your students to sign up on our website (www.iccle.org) to receive this newsletter via e-mail.

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