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2003:

Silicosis deaths in Pondicherry [India] - Silicosis strikes glass factory workers, most of them women, in Pondicherry. Seven people are dead and more may be dying. But the government and the factory management tout technicalities in the face of the workers' suffering. (Asha Krishnakumar, Frontline [India], 29 Mar.-11 Apr. 2003)

• A certain killer [India] - Silicosis is one of the oldest known occupational diseases and affects the lungs...While there are no immediate estimates of the number of people suffering from silicosis, it is known to occur among miners, foundry workers, stonecutters, sandblasters, tunnel workers and rock drillers. (Asha Krishnakumar, Frontline [India], 29 Mar.-11 Apr. 2003)

• Broken lives [India] - They want the government and the [glass] factory management to compensate the families of the women who died and others who are in various stages of the disease [silicosis]...The suspicion in the village is that in the case of many more women the cause of death may have been silicosis. (Asha Krishnakumar, Frontline [India], 29 Mar.-11 Apr. 2003)

2002:

CHILD LABOR: ILO Official Calls For More Efforts In Central America -...During his visit to Guatemala, director of the ILO's International Program on the Eradication of Child Labor Frans Roselaers cited various programs already working in the region to benefit children who work in dangerous conditions, such as firework factories, quarries, agricultural labor that involves direct contact with insecticides and pesticides, domestic labor and sexual exploitation (UN Wire, 4 Dec. 2002)

• {···español} El trabajo infantil podría erradicarse en Centroamérica en 12 años con mayor implicación de los Gobiernos -...Actualmente, según aseguró el enviado de la OIT, los niños que peligran por trabajar están en la producción de juegos pirotécnicos en Guatemala; y en la explotación sexual, en todos los países del área; así como en tareas agrícolas en donde están en contacto directo con insecticidas y pesticidas. (Europa Press, 1 diciembre 2002)

ZAMBIA: Hunger, HIV/AIDS Push Children Into Labor, ILO Warns - Hunger and high HIV/AIDS infection rates are forcing more than 500,000 Zambian children to quit school and take up often hazardous work in farms and factories, the International Labor Organization said yesterday. (UN Wire, 29 Oct. 2002)

• AIDS and hunger force Zambian kids into labour (Reuters, 28 Oct. 2002)

ICFTU Report Denounces Massive Child Labour and Deteriorating Workers’ Rights in Zambia -...children are still toiling in even the worst forms of child labour such as small scale mining operations, agriculture and stone crushing...a deteriorating situation as regards violation of basic workers’ rights in the private sector, including by multinationals...Women are severely disadvantaged....Zambians...infected [with HIV-AIDS] face discrimination in employment as a result of their condition. (International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 25 Oct. 2002)

• {···español} La CIOSL denuncia en un informe la masiva utilización de trabajo infantil y la deterioración de los derechos laborales en Zambia (Confederación Internacional de Organizaciones Sindicales Libres, 25 octubre 2002)

• {···français} Zambie: la CISL dénonce le recours en masse au travail des enfants et les violations croissantes des droits des travailleurs (Confédération internationale des syndicats libres, 25 octobre 2002) 

India's child labour laws failing - India is coming under increasing pressure to take action over massive human rights abuses against child workers and indentured labourers [includes reference to lack of safety measures in quarries] (Humphrey Hawskley, BBC News, 20 Aug. 2002)

32,000 children working in 1,600 stone quarries [Nepal] (sourced from Kathmandu Post [Nepal], 6 July 2002)

2001:

Toil and Trouble: Slavery is on the rise in China as the number of poor migrants increases. Beijing appears unwilling and unable to prevent it (Bruce Gilley, Far Eastern Economic Review, 16 Aug. 2001)