Model UN: Images of Child Labor
Today will be your final day of general research on the topic of child labor. On Monday, you will get your position assignments (for or against child labor) for the debate, and next Tuesday (12/2), we will begin debate.
YOUR TASK:
Click on the following link: http://www.childlaborphotoproject.org/index.html
Once on the page, you will see “Stories:” on the left and then a list of names. These are the names of photographers who have each put together online photo exhibitions about child labor. You are responsible for looking at all of their exhibitions today and adding the information that you find in those exhibitions to your notes. “Read” the photos (what do you see? what can you infer?) and read the captions.
Think and write about:
- What are the different jobs that children do?
- In which countries are these children working?
- What are the working conditions like for these children?
- Where do you think their parents are? How do you think they feel about their children working?
- What do you think the governments of the countries where these children are working think about child labor?
- What do you think governments should do about child labor? Should they regulate it (make laws limiting it) or ban it? Why?
