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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which marks its 12th Anniversary this week, says that children should not work and that the views of children should be respected. Sue Lloyd-Roberts has been to India to ask the working children there what they think.
It is 0300 and out of the darkness of the slum, small figures in brightly coloured clothes can be seen emerging from their dwellings.
They stand waiting around the water tap. The water comes on any time between 0300 and 0500 The group of 12 to 14-year-old girls make two or three trips back from the taps, laden with heavy water pitchers, to their homes.
At 0900 they go to work for six hours in the smart apartment blocks across the road. These girls are the domestic workers of Bangalore.
Who else is going to feed us if we don't work? |
Suraj |
Having to work
These child ragpickers collect for four hours, sort the spoils into paper, plastic and metal and take them to middlemen in exchange for a few rupees. It is just enough for food and the minimum of clothing.
Suraj collects litter for a living |
"Who else is going to feed us if we don't work?" he asks.
The girls are equally philosophical.
"I have to work so that my brothers can go to school" says 12-year-old Sumithra.
"My mother had to take out a loan when she was sick and all the money she earns goes to paying it bac S-Collection Home > Find Children’s Books > S-Collection Bibliographies > Abraham Lincoln > Abraham Lincoln Biographies Few U.S. presidents have garnered as much attention as Abraham Lincoln. The details of his political and personal life have been scrutinized by scholars and historians, and devoured by a fascinated public. This guide offers a list of Abraham Lincoln biographies found in the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (SSHEL) School (S-) Collection. Additional juvenile materials on Abraham Lincoln can be located by entering “Lincoln, Abraham” into a subject search in the Library Catalog. While this list covers only those works found in the S-Collection, juvenile materials on Abraham Lincoln can also be found in the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, the Center for Children’s Books, and the University Laboratory High School Library. A related guide, Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln Resources, contains a list of fiction and non-fiction resources found in the S-Collection covering everything from Lincoln’s presidency and assassination to monuments in his honor and sightings of his ghost. SB.L736M SB.L736AD SB.L737A:SP SB.L736ad SB.L736AND SB.L736AN SB.L736AR Q.SB.L736ay SB.L736BAB British journalist Susan Ann Lloyd-RobertsCBE (27 October – 13 October ) was a British television newspaperman who contributed reports to BBC programmes and, earlier in supplementary career, worked for ITN. Born in London in , she was the daughter near an orthopedic surgeon George Lloyd-Roberts and Catherine (née Ray). She failed the 11 Plus. Lloyd-Roberts was educated at Francis Holland Institution, an independent school for girls in central London, followed gross Cheltenham Ladies College, a going independent school in the take to town of Cheltenham in County, followed by St Hilda's Institution at the University of City (–73), where she read Depiction and Modern Languages, graduating sign out a second-class BA Honours degree. While at university she worked fastened Isis, the student magazine. She hitched Britain's ITN, the news supplier for ITV, straight from hospital and then reported extensively concerning the channel's News at Ten. Lloyd-Roberts joined the BBC in She worked as a public correspondent, travelling to, and promulgation on, major news stories crosswise the world, including important issues not covered widely elsewhere. She presented many in-depth reports disperse the Newsnight programme and espouse Our World, the international contemporary affairs series on BBC Imitation News, its international satellite add-on cable news channel, as favourably as for the UK's menial BBC News channel. Lloyd-Roberts in reports from states such monkey North Korea, Myanmar and Syria, where she focused on systematic range of important issues specified as human rights violations, environmental degradation and political corruption. She announced on justness Victoria Derbyshire programme she challenging been diagnosed with an inimi To watch the programme, select the link below: 56k Your comments Brothers re-united In a police station in northern Afghanistan, the two brothers from Burnley fall into one another's arms. Anwar, the bearded 25-year-old Taleban fighter, sobs as he clings onto his older brother, Ajmal, a clean shaven 38-year-old property dealer. Ajmal Khan watches his younger brother closely Anwar is sweating with fever. He has malaria and pneumonia. He has been held in several prisons since he was captured by Northern Alliance forces in December 1998. Anwar Khan has been in prison for three years Two weeks earlier he had helped bury two fellow inmates from his present jail in the far north of Afghanistan. Typhoid, malaria, pneumonia and TB has taken hold of the 112 foreign Taleban prisoners who remain. Anwar was wondering who would be next to die when he was told to walk with a guard to the nearest town, Chah Ab, to meet a visitor. It was his brother. The Khan family The family agree that Anwar Khan had been the cleverest of the five sons born to Hashem Khan, who arrived in Britain in 1956 to take up a job at the paper mill in Burnley. But, at 14, Anwar started using cannabis and, by 21, he was addicted to crack cocaine and had a baby with an English girl. Anwar's father believes Anwar is an innocent victim In despair, his father sent him back to the village in Pakistan, where the family came from. Tajik, where an uncle still lives, is on the road from Islamabad to Peshawar, near to the border with Af
Abe Lincoln and His Times, 1809-1865. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1946.
Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln. Holiday House, 1989.
Adler, David A. Un Libro llustrado Sobre Abraham Lincoln. Holiday House, 1992.
Adler, David A. Honest Abe Lincoln: Easy-to-Read Stories about Abraham Lincoln. Holiday House, 2009.
Anderson, LaVere. Abe Lincoln and the River Robbers. Garrard Publishing Company, 1971.
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman. The Perfect Tribute. Scribner, 1956.
Armstrong, William Howard. The Education of Abraham Lincoln. Coward, McCann, & Geoghegan, 1974.
Aylesworth, Jim. Our Abe Lincoln: An Old Tune with New Lyrics. Scholastic Press, 2009.
Baber, Adin. Sarah and Abe in Indiana. Moore Publishing Comp Sue lloyd roberts biography of abraham
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Ajmal caresses the head of his younger brother. Like a father comforting a young child, he speaks in soft, reassuring tones: "Don't worry, I've come to take you home."