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Human Rights Definition: United States
When all humans are born they are entitled to inalienable rights regardless of nationality, sex, origin, race, religion, language, or other status.
Human Rights Definition: Uganda
Rights should be maintained by a person’s country and the world to ensure the protection and safety of those individuals.
Human Rights Definition: Uganda
When all humans are born they are entitled to inalienable rights regardless of nationality, sex, origin, race, religion, language, or other status.

Human Rights Definition: United States
When all humans are born they are entitled to inalienable rights regardless of nationality, sex, origin, race, religion, language, or other status.
Human Rights Definition: Uganda
Rights should be maintained by a person’s country and the world to ensure the protection and safety of those individuals.

Human Rights Definition: United States
Human Rights Definition: Uganda
Rights should be maintained by a person’s country and the world to ensure the protection and safety of those individuals.

Human Human Rights Violation
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Sweeper and Dofferdoffer boys in Cotton
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Child factory workers
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Breaker Boys
Coal Co.
Pittston, Pa.
Photo: Lewis Hine
1938 Federal regulation of child labor achieved in Fair Labor Standards Act
For the first time, minimum ages of employment and hours of work for children are regulated by federal law
Child labor is still a part of many economies today. 59,600 of the workers in the U.S. are under 14 and many other countries have huge child labor troubles. Child labor may have originated from the Industrial Revolution, but it is still around today.
Resources Used:
Child Labor Public Education Project. About Child Labor. Retrieved on June 8, 2009 from http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/

Human Rights Violation in the United States
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Sweeper and Doffer in Cotton Mill
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Child factory workers
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Breaker Boys
Hughestown Borough Pa. Coal Co.
Pittston, Pa.
Photo: Lewis Hine
Human Rights Violation: United States Child Laborers
When the industrial revolution first came to Britain and the U.S., there was a high demand for labor. Families quickly migrated from the rural farm areas to the newly industrialized cities to find work. To survive in even the lowest level of poverty, families had to have every able member of the family go to work. This led to the high rise in child labor in factories. Children were not treated well, overworked, and underpaid for a long time before anyone tried to change things for them.
One common punishment for being late or not working up to quota would be to be "weighted." An overseer would tie a heavy weight to worker's neck, and have them walk up and down the factory aisles so the other children could see them and "take example." This could last up to an hour. Weighting could lead to serious injuries in the back and/or neck. Punishments such as this would often be dispensed under stringent rules.
1938 Federal regulation of child labor achieved in Fair Labor Standards Act
federal law
Resources Used:
from http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/
The Learning Page.(2004). Child Labor in America. Retrieved on June 8, 2009 from http://memory.loc.gov/learn/lessons/98/labor/resource.html
Human Rights Violation in Uganda
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Child Soldier of Uganda
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Joseph Kony and his Child Soldiers
Human Rights Violation: Uganda’s Child Soldiers
For the past 23 years the Government of Uganda and a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have been waging war.