Stolen Childhoods

Child Labor Documentary To Be Shown

The documentary film "Stolen Childhoods," by director Len Morris, will be screened at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 5 in 112 Dale Hall. It is presented by the School of International and Area Studies.

According to the official Web site, the film features stories of child laborers around the world, told in their own words. Children are shown working in dumps, quarries, brick kilns. One boy has been pressed into forced labor on a fishing platform in the Sea of Sumatra, a fifteen-year-old runaway describes being forced into prostitution on the streets of Mexico City, while a nine-year-old girl picks coffee in Kenya to help her family survive.

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Heather Hansen
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