CLEA students and staff with Child Labor Leaders. Ms. Upala Devi Banerjee was able to come early to speak at the CLEA Conference. The CLEA students learned about India's child labor issues in speaking with Ms. Banerjee. All five participants were in Washington to attend the National Child Labor Coalition on May 16 and the Child Labor Conference at the Department of Labor on May 17, at which time the students met and discussed child labor conditions in several more countries. CLEA students receive participation awards.
Discussions continue with pizza.
He later managed several rural and urban projects which included improving access to potable water, health services and education in rural areas, and focusing on poverty alleviation in the urban areas. Mr. Araya holds a degree in Economics from Addis Ababa University. India The Solidarity Center is the international wing of the AFL-CIO which has 27 offices throughout the world addressing workers' rights issues. Ms. Banerjee also works as the Manager of the Canadian International Development Agency's Child Rights Fund in India. She has become known as a resource person in India and elsewhere in the region on child trafficking, migrant workers and child labor, and has written and researched a number of papers which focus primarily on children and gender issues in South Asia.