Child Slavery Persists in Mining and Quarrying Industry
Ms. Shahinian cites that during on her country visits, she hase seen how unscrupulous employers to take advantage of children's small physique for artisanal mining which results in their stunted growth.
US Committed to End Exploitative Child Labor Around The World
She says the most recent estimate by the International Labor Organization (ILO) suggests boys and girls are involved in child labor throughout the world, often in hazardous and exploitative conditions.
U.S.-Afghan Partnership Leads to Aircraft Maintenance Improvements
This partnership isn't about guts-and-glory battles with the Taliban, but about battles that won't take place once the United States is gone unless the country's helicopter maintenance programs progress to self-sufficiency.
Israeli-American Scientist Daniel Hillel Wins 2012 World Food Prize
World Food Prize Foundation President and former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia Kenneth M. Quinn today announced Mr. Hillel as the winner.
As We Try to Identify Civil War Era Photographs, We Learn Some History!
The photo of the southern belle shows a woman who still proudly displays an attitude upholding the strength of her moribund culture.
