Articles and Useful Resources

The Small Hands of Slavery - Bethany Pawson

Bonded Labour Article (372KB PDF)

Child labour is a challenging, complex, global issue that raises difficult questions with no straightforward answers.
We need to wrestle with these challenging questions. Not for the sake of mere curiosity…But for the sake of millions of lives.
Following a recent trip to Southern India, Bethany Pawson reports.

Bonded Labour

http://borntobefree.worldvision.org.nz/downloads/
The_Tragedy_of_Child_Labour_script.pdf

Article on Bonded Child Labour contains reference to the work in the Born to be Free project

Child Labour

http://www.wvasiapacific.org/content/view/210/102

Intro page with brief info on child labour and link to the following article

http://www.wvasiapacific.org/images/Publications/indialabour.pdf

This is a superb in depth look at child labour issues and the work of World Vision in India.

Beedi making

http://www.american.edu/TED/india-beede.htm

Article on Bonded Child Labour in India – Beedi making