Putting Children First and Leaving No Child Behind in the Global Economy
May 10, 2001
8:45 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Hart Senate Office Building
9th Floor Conference Room
Schedule of Events
9:00 - 9:05am:
Welcome and Introduction of Keynote Speaker
U.S. Senator Tom Harkin
9:05 - 9:25am: Morning Keynote Address
Kailash Satyarthi
Founder and Leader of the Global March Against Child Labor
"Education for All-the Global Campaign for Universal Access
to Basic Education"
9:25 -10:20am: New Laws in Search of Better Enforcement
Tariff Act of 1930 as amended (Treasury Dept. and U.S. Customs officials)
Mark Witzal, Senior Special Agent, Office of Investigations,
U.S. Customs Service
Trade and Development Act of 2000
Sandra Polaski, Special Representative for International Labor
Affairs/State Department
Jorge Perez-Lopez, Associate Deputy Undersecretary for International Labor
Affairs/U.S. Department of Labor
Spokesperson for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
ILO Convention #182 on Worst Forms of Child Labor
Alice Oedraogo, IPEC Director of Policy Development and Advocacy,
International Labor Organization
Amendments to U.S. child labor laws since 1990
Spokesperson for Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor
10:20 -10:30am: Youth Activist Presentation
Elizabeth and Laura Bloomer for the Kids Campaign Against Child Labor at
Broad Meadows Middle School in Quincy, Massachusetts and
Ron Adams,
their teacher
10:30 - 11:45am: Ongoing Abusive Child Labor in the U.S. and the National Plan
of Action
Moderator:
Darlene Adkins, National Coordinator, Child Labor Coalition
Children in the Fields
Jose Martinez, former child farmworker and
Pablo Flores and son,
farmworkers
Sexual Exploitation of Children on the Internet and elsewhere
Carol Smolinski, National Coordinator of End Child Prostitution and
Trafficking
Child Labor and Sweatshops and Need for Stronger Worker Rights Protection
Charles Kernaghan, Executive Director of the National Labor Committee
Abusive child labor in the Entertainment and Sports Industries
Paul Petersen, Executive Director of A Minor Consideration and former
child actor
Melissa Gilbert, former child actress,
Traci Lords, former child actress
11:50am - 12:50pm: Lunch Break- Restaurants are located nearby at Union Station and 2nd and Massachusetts Avenue. Child labor videos will run continuously throughout the break.
12:50 - 1:00pm: Youth Activist Presentation
Andrew Kruse, student organizer of Operation Day's Work at Tipton High
School in Tipton, Iowa.
1:00 - 1:20pm: Afternoon Keynote Address
Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice President of the AFL-CIO
"Children in the Fields and the Campaign for Global Fairness for All Working
People"
1:20 - 2:20pm: The International Challenge: Priorities for the 107th Congress
Moderator: Pharis Harvey, Executive Director, International Labor
Rights Fund
Global Campaign for Access to Basic Education and the U.S. Contribution
Sandra Feldman, President of the American Federation of Teachers
ILO International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC)
at the Cutting Edge
Frans M. J. Roselaers, Director of IPEC, International Labor Organization
Pending UN Protocol on Child Soldiers
Mike Farrell, Co-Chair of Human Rights Watch/California
Arn Chorn Pond, former child soldier from Cambodia
Pending UN Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and
Child Pornography
Nancy Nye, Executive Director, Youth Advocate Program International
Child Labor, Worker Rights and Fast Track
Ray Marshall, Former U.S. Labor Secretary and Professor of Economics
at Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs
2:20 - 2:30pm: Youth Activist Presentation
Laura Freeman, Rob Curry-Smithson, and
Sadie Forsythe, students with
the Child Labor Education and Action Project from Brattleboro Union
High School.
2:30 - 3:30pm: Globalization Hits Home: Child Labor, Worker Rights, and the Global Economy-The U.S.-Mexican Experience
Moderator: David Strauss, Executive Director of the Association of
Farmworker Opportunity Programs
Carlos Felix Corona, Minister for Migration Affairs, Embassy of Mexico
Daniel Rothenberg, author of "With These Hands" and Professor at
University of Michigan
Alejandro Tinajero, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Fellow
Hisela Perez and family, farmworkers from Gettysburg, PA
Diane Mull, Executive Director, International Initiative to End Child Labor
and Child Labor Coordinator at Creative Associates International, Inc.
Senator Tom Harkin on the CARE Bill and other pending legislation on
abusive child labor
3:30 - 3:40pm: Youth Activist Presentation
Students from Immaculate Heart and Palisades High Schools in Los Angeles and the
Human Rights Watch/California Student Task Force presenting petitions in support of the CARE Bill and their related work.
3:40 - 4:40pm: New Hope for Better Lives for Child Laborers and Their Families Around the World
Moderator: Sonia Rosen, Senior Child Labor Advisor to the
AFL-CIO/Solidarity Center
New Bilateral Education Program and Interface with Pre-Existing Programs
Maureen Jaffe, Acting Director of the International Child Labor Program,
Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor
John D. Hatch III, Senior Advisor on Basic Education, United States Agency
for International Development
Mike Hancock, Senior Labor Advisor, United States Agency for International
Development
New school feeding program
Mary Chambliss, USDA Coordinator of Global Food for Education Initiative
World Bank and the IFIs
Zafiris Tzannatos, Advisor to World Bank Managing Director
Executive order on U.S. Procurement
David Drabkin, GSA Deputy Associate Administrator for Acquisition Policy
and Senior Procurement Executive
4:45 - 5:15pm: Closing Address
5:15 - 5:30pm: Closing Remarks
US Senator Tom Harkin
"How Far We Have Come and the Challenge Ahead"