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Instances of forced labor in the fish and shrimp industry, as well as child labour in the pornography industry, are still observed in Thailand and have been reported in the 2013 U.S. Department of Labor's report on the worst forms of child labor [144] and in the 2014 List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor.
All of the countries in East Asia and the Pacific have ratified the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, a comprehensive human rights treaty which requires State Parties to make the world safer, healthier and more respectful of children's rights.
The List of countries by child labour rate provides rankings of countries based on their rates of child labour. Child labour is defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as participation in economic activity by underage persons aged 5 to 17. Child work harms children, interferes with their education, and prevents their development.
GoodWeave International (formerly known as Rugmark) [1] is a network of non-profit organizations dedicated to ending illegal child labour in the rug making industry. Founded in 1994 by children's rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, [2] [3] [4] it provides a certification program that allows companies that pass inspection to attach a logo certifying that their ...
The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization (ILO)-sanctioned holiday first launched in 2002 [1] aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour. It was spurred by ratifications of ILO Convention No. 138 [2] on the minimum age for employment and ILO Convention No. 182 [3] on the worst forms of child ...
Families in Thailand laid flowers at a child-care center where at least 36 people, including 24 children, were killed during a mass shooting on Thursday. The gunman killed his wife and child ...
Don't! Buy! Thai! was a campaign initiated in the early 1990s by child welfare advocate and author Andrew Vachss to boycott goods and services produced in Thailand until its government introduced formal and practical reforms to significantly curtail the prostitution of children.
According to the United States Department of State, "Thailand is a source, destination, and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking." [ 1 ] : 330 Thailand 's relative prosperity attracts migrants from neighboring countries who flee conditions of poverty and, in the case of Burma, military ...