Child Labor Today
It was estimated that 2 million children worked in the United States in 1938, before the passage by the U.S. Congress of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Today, the number of children that work in the United States is between 500,000 and 1,000,000.
Due to the globalization of supply chains, false development aid initiatives and disregard for
the rule of law tens of millions of children work today in the supply chains of the United States.
The same is true in the European Union, tens of millions of children are exploited in the supply
chains of the EU.
the rule of law tens of millions of children work today in the supply chains of the United States.
The same is true in the European Union, tens of millions of children are exploited in the supply
chains of the EU.
Today Norway, the largest investor in the world, also profits from the exploitation of tens of millions of children by investing in hundreds of corporations that exploit children to increase profits.
Switzerland has more children working in its supply chains of coffee, tea and cocoa than children studying in all Swiss schools. The fact is that all developed nations profit from the exploitation of children.
300 million children work today!
To help eliminate child labor worldwide, the children's rights activist Fernando Morales-de la Cruz is promoting a series of initiatives inspired in the work of Lewis Hine:
The Hine Prize:
A jury of photo editors and famous journalists will select the best photos and videos of child labor taken by professional photographers and journalists taken after September 30th 2022.
The best will be awarded The Hine Prize.
The best will be awarded The Hine Prize.
Lewis Hine Grants:
Twenty to thirty professional photographers and journalists will be selected to receive a Lewis Hine Grant to document child labor in photos and short videos in a specific country, as it was done by Lewis Hine.
Ten of them will be young women under 30, by September 30th 2022. These photos and videos will be part of the exhibit They Work For Us and of educational material developed for teachers and students to learn about child labor today.
Ten of them will be young women under 30, by September 30th 2022. These photos and videos will be part of the exhibit They Work For Us and of educational material developed for teachers and students to learn about child labor today.
The Itinerant Exhibit They Work For Us
Photos and short videos of child labor in the XXI century taken by professional photographers and journalists in 2022 and 2023 will be exhibited in transportation hubs and centers of power in key cities. These exhibits will be done in partnership with local and national governments.
The goal of these initiatives is to document child labor 74 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and 33 years after the ratification of the Convention on Rights of the Child to create a sense of urgency to end the exploitation of children.
Proposed exhibits
Itinerant Exhibit They Work For Us_Brussels
Itinerant Exhibit They Work For Us_Berlin
Itinerant Exhibit They Work For Us_New York
Itinerant Exhibit They Work For Us_Paris
