The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the
cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday June 12th, 2022 – World Day
Against Child Labour
Children around the world are routinely engaged in paid and unpaid
forms of work that are not harmful to them. However, they are classified
as child labourers when they are either too young to work, or are
involved in hazardous activities that may compromise their physical,
mental, social or educational development. In the least developed
countries, slightly more than one in four children (ages 5 to 17) are
engaged in labour that is considered detrimental to their health and
development
Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour by Rene Wadlow
12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the
World Day Against Child Labour. It marks the 12 June arrival in 1998
of hundreds of children in Geneva, part of the Global March against
Child Labour that had crossed a 100 countries to present their plight to
the International Labour Organization (ILO).
“We are hurting, and you can help us” was their message to
the assembled International Labour Conference which meets each year in
Geneva in June. One year later, in June, the ILO had drafted ILO
Convention N° 182 on child labour which 165 States have now ratified —
the fastest ratification rate in the ILO’s history.
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Gods & Savage Beasts #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Swimming,
Plunging into the deep,
Through sea-swells,
Coral reefs and
Salty fingers,
Plunging down
Into the crystal blue
Soulof the world,”
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Dear Times and Costly Cricket: Australia’s Sri Lankan Tour by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
For a country experiencing its worst economic crisis since
gaining independence in 1948, the picture of a touring team pampered and
fussed over might cause consternation. But the Australian cricket tour
to Sri Lanka has only been met by praise from the country’s cricket
officials, where logic is inverted, and the gaze of responsibility
averted. Not even a shortage of foreign currency, precipitating a
dramatic fall in medicines and fuel, along with demonstrations that have
left nine dead and 300 injured, prompted second thoughts.
A good deal of this crisis was helped by the coming to power of
former defence minister Gotabaya Rajapaksa who, in turn, named his older
brother, Mahinda, also a former president, prime minister. Their 2020
election victory was thumping, decisive, and corrupting. Graft and
nepotism set in. Quixotic decisions to cut taxes eroded state revenue.
COVID-19 began its seemingly inexorable march of infection.
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AntySaurus Prick #38 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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