Children or Slaves: Child Labor in Asia

Modern Asian Perspectives project on Child Labor in Asia.

This video was created by three students from Singapore American School - Allen Koh, Michael Conrad and Josh Wolf - to raise awareness of the human rights violation of child labor that is occurring in Asia - specifically in China and Indonesia.

We hope that by creating this video and posting it on Youtube, we will be able to spread the word about the human rights violations occurring to these children. We will be able to have a worldwide audience and be able to create awareness about this issue.

Please comment and help our cause!
Thank you

For more information, please visit:

http://www.wolfcla.pbworks.com
http://www.kohcla.pbworks.com
http://www.conradcla.pbworks.com

Organizations against child slavery/labor:
http://www.helpstopchildslavery.org
http://www.stopchildlabor.org
http://www.laborrights.org/stop-child-labor
http://www.sos-childrensvillages.org

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[jackycheng10]

My mom used to be one of these workers I hope Child labour could stop its not fair in working hours then their pay I do wish this video gets more views and help see how lucky we are to have a good life than these people that are suffering just to pay for the help of their family.

[4037sfederal]

I have an Indonesian friend who lives poorly while I live happily in America. I havent heard from him. I was just curious of the certain hardships they face. I wanted to cry when I saw this...We sure do need to think about other human beings in this world...<3LOVE

[FreeFromWar]

@hark1968 While I certainly agree with you and share similar views, I still think school education is necessary, atleast till a certain age. And education should never be forced on children specially by parents. But our world and society forces us as we grow up to serve this meaningless system. We're basically being programmed to serve a system in the name of education. It's not your parents fault or your fault. The monetary system is a flawed system that we live under.

[hark1968]

@FreeFromWar

- School makes children dwell on things they're not interested in and learn by heart things they will soon forget anyway, and leaves them with little opportunity to follow their own interests and develop their talents.

- School turns a lot of people into outsiders - either because they don't have the talents the curriculum asks for, or the other way round, because school-type learning comes too easily to them.

- Schools makes children HATE learning.

- School humiliates

[FreeFromWar]

@hark1968 Hmm well ok, let's say for a minute that school is "evil" even though there is no such thing as "evil", it's a religiously influenced word. So what do you suggest we do? And what makes the schools "evil"?

[hark1968]

@FreeFromWar "Any education is good"

There is actuallt a film called "Bad Education" (La mala educacao) which would be one of many sources that might help you reconsider this generalization...

But I'm not saying that LEARNING is a bad thing. In fact I think that school is an EVIL institution first of all because it kills the natural passion for learning in children!

[FreeFromWar]

@hark1968 I don't know about your experiences but without education our world wouldn't be as developed as it is today. Atleast some parts of it. Infact most of the underdeveloped countries are so because of the lack of education. Sure the educational institutions have to be improved a lot, no doubt about that. But any education is good. Without learning from each other, we are no different than any other primitive species.

[hark1968]

@FreeFromWar

What's wrong with me? I spent 20 years at school - 12 as a student, 8 as a teacher. School is a cruel place. It wrecked my life, and it wrecks the lives of countless children.

[FreeFromWar]

This is insanity...

[FreeFromWar]

@hark1968 You can't be serious... What is wrong with you.....

[dayspeace]

children's rights should be protected. It is sad that big businesses continue to abuse children.