When people from Central America talk about recent hurricanes, they sometimes sound like proud parents listing their children. "After Mitch we had Lenny, then Katrina, and eventually Michelle," recalls Oscar Alcántara, a community leader in La Masica, a municipality in Honduras’ Atlantida department.
GENEVA (ILO News) - The plight of children who work in mines and quarries that are often dangerous, dirty and can post a grave risk to their health and safety will be the focus of the fourth World Day Against Child Labour, scheduled for 12 June 2005, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said today.