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Friday, May 4, 2007

6 WORST FORM OF CHILD LABOR

Mining and Quarrying

  • Labor-intensive, based on improvised low level technologies and methods
  • OSH and environmental issues linked
  • Long hours, heavy loads, exposure to dust and chemicals (especially mercury), cave-ins

Domestic work

  • Separated from their own families
  • Work 15 hours a day, with or without wage
  • Minimum wage is less than $15/month
  • Vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse
  • 90% are girls
  • Some trafficked for labor/sexual exploitation

Pyrotechnics production

  • High risk of injuries or loss of life due to highly flammable and combustible substances
  • Complaints of dizziness, asthma, weight loss, sore eyes and backaches
  • For 1,000 pieces of baby rockets, a child earns less than $1 a day
  • Fixed salaried collect an average of 40 cents to $2 a day

Commercially and sexually exploited

  • Young girls are prevalent but boys are increasing
  • Many recruited from rural poor to work in urban areas, and abroad

Deep-sea fishing

  • Work 12 to 15 hours a day, starting 3am
  • Pa-aling fishing trips take children away from families 9 to 10 months. Families receives cash advance in return
  • Cuts, wounds, skin diseases, sore eyes and exhaustion
  • Decompression symptoms, and harsh weather conditions at sea, high level of noise from mechanical machines
  • Drowning and other underwater hazards

Sugarcane plantation

  • Child workers in sugar plantations mainly children of sugar workers and peasants, living on and around haciendas
  • Children are involve in all aspects of cane growing, harvesting and hauling
  • 64% of the children working on sugarcane plantation are studying, but drop out from the school during the year
  • off-season peril: vulnerable to recruiters who lure them to metro manila and abroad

CHILD LABOR IN THE PHILIPPINES

  • 4 million (16.2%) of 25 million children aged 5-17 years old were economically active.
  • 2.2 million were in hazardous work.
  • Over 50% of the total numbers of child laborer are 5-14 years of age. Median age is just 10 years, that is 50% are aged 10 years and below.
  • The highest percentage of working children came from southern tagalong (11.5%), followed by Central Visayas (9.7%) and Eastern Visayas (8.7%).
  • The working children were composed of children aged 10-14 years old (1.9 million or 48%) and 15-17 years old (1.8 million or 46%).
  • There were more male working children (2.5 million or 62.3%) than female working children (1.5 million or 36.6%). Seven out of ten working children resided in the rural areas.
  • 25.1% of the children worked in the evening or during night time. The proportion of children working during night time in the urban areas (39%) was greater than that in the rural areas (19%); more males than females.
  • More than half of the total number of the children surveyed (51.2% or 2 million) worked between 1 to 4 hours a day.
  • Over third of the children worked from 5 – 8 hours in a day and the remaining 9% worked for more than 8 hours per week.
  • About 2.4 million of working children were exposed to physical and chemical hazards and were in physical and biologically hazardous working places. 23% suffered from work-related injuries.
  • One third of working children did not attend school. Seven in every ten working children (65.9% or 2.6 million) attended school.
  • 34% of these children dropped out from school and 22% reported that their work interferes with their schooling.
  • Two in every five working children stopped/dropped out of school. The ratio or male working child to female working children in terms of dropouts was 2:1.
  • Reasons given for dropping out school include loss of interest (31.4%), and high cost of schooling (28.3%).

THE RIGHTS OF EVERY FILIPINO CHILD

It’s my right:

To be born. To have a name and nationality

To be free, to have a family who will take care of me

To have a good education

To develop my potentials

To have enough food, shelter, a healthy and active body

To be given the opportunity for play and leisure

To be given protection against abuse, danger, and violence brought by war and conflict

To live in a peaceful community

To be defended and assisted by government

To be able to express my own views

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

AFI's 100 YEARS...100 MOVIE QUOTES

The American Film Institute (AFI) revealed the top movie quotes of all time in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes, a three-hour special television event on CBS hosted by actor and action star Pierce Brosnan with commentary from many of Hollywood's most celebrated actors and filmmakers. A jury of 1,500 film artists, critics and historians selected "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," spoken by Clark Gable in the celebrated Civil War epic, GONE WITH THE WIND as the most memorable movie quote of all time.

# Quote Movie Year

1 Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

GONE WITH THE WIND 1939

2 I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.

THE GODFATHER 1972

3 You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

ON THE WATERFRONT 1954

4 Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939

5 Here's looking at you, kid.

CASABLANCA 1942

6 Go ahead, make my day.

SUDDEN IMPACT 1983

7 All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

SUNSET BLVD. 1950

8 May the Force be with you.

STAR WARS 1977

9 Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

ALL ABOUT EVE 1950

10 You talking to me?

TAXI DRIVER 1976

11 What we've got here is failure to communicate.

COOL HAND LUKE 1967

12 I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

APOCALYPSE NOW 1979

13 Love means never having to say you're sorry.

LOVE STORY 1970

14 The stuff that dreams are made of.

THE MALTESE FALCON 1941

15 E.T. phone home.

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL 1982

16 They call me Mister Tibbs!

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 1967

17 Rosebud.

CITIZEN KANE 1941

18 Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

WHITE HEAT 1949

19 I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

NETWORK 1976

20 Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

CASABLANCA 1942

21 A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS 1991

22 Bond. James Bond.

DR. NO 1962

23 There's no place like home.

THE WIZARD OF OZ 1939

24 I am big! It's the pictures that got small.

SUNSET BLVD. 1950

25 Show me the money!

JERRY MAGUIRE 1996

26 Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

SHE DONE HIM WRONG 1933

27 I'm walking here! I'm walking here!

MIDNIGHT COWBOY 1969

28 Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'

CASABLANCA 1942

29 You can't handle the truth!

A FEW GOOD MEN 1992

30 I want to be alone.

GRAND HOTEL 1932

31 After all, tomorrow is another day!

GONE WITH THE WIND 1939

32 Round up the usual suspects.

CASABLANCA 1942

33 I'll have what she's having.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY 1989

34 You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT 1944

35 You're gonna need a bigger boat.

JAWS 1975

36 Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE 1948

37 I'll be back.

THE TERMINATOR 1984

38 Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES 1942

39 If you build it, he will come.

FIELD OF DREAMS 1989

40 Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

FORREST GUMP 1994

41 We rob banks.

BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967

42 Plastics

THE GRADUATE 1967

43 We'll always have Paris

CASABLANCA 1942

44 I see dead people.

THE SIXTH SENSE 1999

45 Stella! Hey, Stella!

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951

46 Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars.

NOW, VOYAGER 1942

47 Shane. Shane. Come back!

SHANE 1953

48 Well, nobody's perfect.

SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959

49 It's alive! It's alive!

FRANKENSTEIN 1931

50 Houston, we have a problem.

APOLLO 13 1995

51 You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? DIRTY HARRY 1971

52 You had me at "hello."

JERRY MAGUIRE 1996

53 One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

ANIMAL CRACKERS 1930

54 There's no crying in baseball!

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN 1992

55 La-dee-da, la-dee-da.

ANNIE HALL 1977

56 A boy's best friend is his mother.

PSYCHO 1960

57 Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.

WALL STREET 1987

58 Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

THE GODFATHER II 1974

59 As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.

GONE WITH THE WIND 1939

60 Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!

SONS OF THE DESERT 1933

61 Say "hello" to my little friend!

SCARFACE 1983

62 What a dump.

BEYOND THE FOREST 1949

63 Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?

THE GRADUATE 1967

64 Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

DR. STRANGELOVE 1964

65 Elementary, my dear Watson.

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES 1939

66 Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.

PLANET OF THE APES 1968

67 Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. CASABLANCA 1942

68 Here's Johnny!

THE SHINING 1980

69 They're here!

POLTERGEIST 1982

70 Is it safe?

MARATHON MAN 1976

71 Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!

THE JAZZ SINGER 1927

72 No wire hangers, ever!

MOMMIE DEAREST 1981

73 Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?

LITTLE CAESAR 1930

74 Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.

CHINATOWN 1974

75 I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951

76 Hasta la vista, baby.

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 1991

77 Soylent Green is people!

SOYLENT GREEN 1973

78 Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY 1968

79 Striker: Surely you can't be serious.

Rumack: I am serious…and don't call me Shirley.

AIRPLANE! 1980

80 Yo, Adrian!

ROCKY 1976

81 Hello, gorgeous.

FUNNY GIRL 1968

82 Toga! Toga!

NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE 1978

83 Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.

DRACULA 1931

84 Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

KING KONG 1933

85 My precious.

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: TWO TOWERS 2002

86 Attica! Attica!

DOG DAY AFTERNOON 1975

87 Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!

42ND STREET 1933

88 Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!

ON GOLDEN POND 1981

89 Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper. KNUTE ROCKNE ALL AMERICAN 1940

90 A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

GOLDFINGER 1964

91 Who's on first.

THE NAUGHTY NINETIES 1945

92 Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!

CADDYSHACK 1980

93 Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!

AUNTIE MAME 1958

94 I feel the need - the need for speed!

TOP GUN 1986

95 Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

DEAD POETS SOCIETY 1989

96 Snap out of it!

MOONSTRUCK 1987

97 My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 1942

98 Nobody puts Baby in a corner.

DIRTY DANCING 1987

99 I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

WIZARD OF OZ, THE 1939

100 I'm king of the world!

TITANIC 1997

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