Source: Kapil Dave | India Today Like most teenage girls, Ramila would love nothing more than to fret over school examinations, pine for Bollywood hunks, hang out with her friends and frolic with her eight siblings. But for this shy 14-year-old from Barna village in the Kherwara block of Rajasthan’s Udaipur district, the joys of […]
CNN Video: Child Labor at Commonwealth Games
October 4, 2010 by 1 Comment
Trafficking expert Siddharth Kara on the use of child labor in New Delhi where the Commonwealth Games is being held: “I reliably documented, in just a few days, 32 cases of forced labor and 14 cases of child labor all for construction related to the Commonwealth Games,” Kara said on Connect the World. “The children […]
Indian Child Labor Readying Commonwealth Games
September 30, 2010 by Leave a Comment
A recent article in the Toronto Star newspaper focuses on some disturbing examples of children as young as four working long days on the Games facilities. Meet four-year-old Ajay. Source: Rick Westhead | TheStar.com NEW DELHI—It’s crunch time in New Delhi and Ajay, a bright-eyed four-year-old with cropped hair and a handsome smile, is working 13-hour […]
The ‘Gray Areas’ of Child Labor
September 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Earlier in the week NPR’s Neal Conan interviewed Jane Stewart, special representative and director of the International Labour Organization’s office to the United Nations, formerly minister of human resources in Canada. Listen online here Read NPR Transcript – This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan in Washington. The campaign to eliminate the horrors […]
Number of world’s hungry falls 10%
September 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Source: Financial Times By Javier Blas, Commodities Editor Published: September 14 2010 12:34 | Last updated: September 14 2010 18:36 The number of chronically hungry people will decline 10 per cent this year, the first fall since 1995, said the UN, while warning the global agreement to cut the percentage of people suffering from hunger […]
Trafficking and Child Sex Booming in South Asia
September 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Source: Mahmuda Begum | Devactivism.org There are one-fifth population in the world lived in South Asian region. Poverty is one of the main problem in this region. Most of them earn in here less than a dollar a day. Several studies have shown that girl children and women bear a disproportionately large burden of the […]
America to Kolhapur: A Mahatma Gandhi inspired Journey
September 1, 2010 by 3 Comments
GWEI Directors Anuradha Bhosale, Jean Williams, and Scott Kafora were just featured in the DNA Mumbai news! ———- From America to Kolhapur: The journey Mahatma Gandhi inspired By Mohsin Mulla | DNA News | Friday, Aug 27, 2010 Over 60 years after he died, father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi continues to find followers globally. […]
India is a Hub of Child Trafficking, Says State Dept
August 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
India is a major hub of human trafficking in forced labor and sexual exploitation, especially of children, noted the U.S. State Department in a report released recently.
India’s poverty amid plenty
August 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
See also – Indian Children have a Right to Adequate Food Nutrition EDITORIAL: India’s poverty amid plenty 10 August 2010 | Khaleei Times The New York Times has carried a rather interesting report by its correspondent on the widening chasm between its rich and poor, with particular focus on the government’s poverty alleviation measures. While […]
India’s child slaves building the Games
August 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
India’s child slaves building the Games By JESSICA HALLORAN in New Delhi From: The Sunday Telegraph August 15, 2010 12:00AM INDIA’S $3 billion Commonwealth Games is being built by children working for as little as $3 a day. Human rights groups have accused organisers of reneging on promises to look after workers and criticised the […]
Gandhi Institute Efforts against Child Trafficking Highlighted in BBC Special Report
August 12, 2010 by 6 Comments
Gandhi organization’s efforts to combat forced child labor and trafficking will be one of the featured examinations on this week’s BBC World News – the Fast Track series. View BBC report here – Gandhi’s grandson helps India’s poor August 12, 2010 / Wauconda, IL / Dr. Arun Gandhi, President of the Gandhi Worldwide Education Institute […]
US blacklists India for using child labour
August 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
US blacklists India for using child labour August 10, 2010 09:19 Indian apparel exporters, still reeling under the impact of the global economic downturn, are in for fresh trouble as the United States government has put India among a list of countries that use child labour. Such an inclusion is not only going to tarnish […]
Indian Children have a Right to Adequate Food Nutrition
August 10, 2010 by 1 Comment
A sweeping political proposal has divided the Indian Congress Party. Its president, Sonia Gandhi, is pushing for a constitutional “right to food” and to enlarge the present entitlement to provide every Indian family with a monthly 77-pound bag of grain, sugar and kerosene – From The New York Times – By JIM YARDLEY – 8/08/2010: JHABUA, India […]
Progress Report from Jean Williams
August 6, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Here is the latest report from Jean Williams. —————————– Editor’s Note: Revised/Updated 4/8/2011 To the GWEI Board – Besides concentrating on the early phases of design, we would like to to share examples of other undertakings of involvement with the Avani School. Scott has illustrated the information I collected and compiled. My comments * The […]
Myth Busting the Basis of Child Malnutrition in India
July 31, 2010 by 1 Comment
Roughly 40% of all under-nourished children under 5 years of age live in India. This report by Sam Mendelson and Dr. Samir Chaudhuri dismisses many prevalent myths about child malnutrition in India and points to real solutions. Even after a decade of galloping economic growth, child malnutrition rates are worse here than in many sub-Saharan […]