Thursday, February 19, 2015

How I see myself in each platform now.

Blogger:
I learned a lot about blogging in GNML. It taught me that how can i concise my all social medias in one website which would make much easy for people to know about my recent posts in any kind of platforms. It will make easy for me to give people address of any kind social media. I can give my blog's website through which people can get to my profile of any kind of social media. Example: FB, Twitter or Instagram etc.

Twitter:
In twitter I learned that how can i give strong message in small words. GNML helped me organizing my twitter account and made it looks like organized account and also learned how to embed it in the blog.

You Tube:
Every time in my life i uploaded the videos in youtube that were not much beneficial to people. But when i uploaded my elevator speech first time with some important information (about child labor). I was really appreciated from people and that was a time learned that how strong are the videos on You Tube when it is with some beneficial information. I also learned how to embed videos in blog.

Facebook:
I never had any facebook page and never knew that how to make a page on facebook. Now I can feel that how strong and organized my posts about child labor are on my page of facebook as compared to the posts i use to upload from my pesonal account of Fb.

Instagram:
Picture says thousand words. I learned the importance and power of images on instagram. Pictures on instagram gives people an emotional and real feeling about my compaign (child labor). I learned that which type of pictures are strong and more effective to upload from GNML.

LinkedIn:
LinkedIn is only one social media that i don't use to give importance but now i came to know how beneficial this platform is to make connections. By the help of GNML I came to know that how I can be professional user on LinkedIn and how to organize my profile which can leave a strong impact on people.
YES! I learned a lot from GNML! GO GO GO!!

The Logistical Nightmare of Sending 57,000 Immigrant Kids Home

In recent weeks, President Obama and congressional Republicans have begun to offer the same simple-sounding solution for dealing with the flood of children crossing the U.S. border alone: Send the kids home. But with tens of thousands of them churning through the system, some just toddlers, the logistics are overwhelming. A decade ago, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which cares for minors soon after they are picked up, handled just 6,200 kids a year. By 2013 that figure had ballooned to almost 25,000. Since October, more than 57,000 children have arrived by themselves, most from Central America, and 22,000 more have been detained with their parents. While the majority of those caught are teenagers, the greatest increase has been among children younger than 12.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents find that most don’t try to run; in fact, they want to be caught. The kids hope that being apprehended will begin another journey, one that will end with permission to remain in the U.S. Children from Mexico can be deported without a formal hearing. But a 2008 law intended to combat sex trafficking says those from nonbordering countries—such as Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—must be allowed to plead their cases before a judge. The influx has pushed wait times for immigration cases to a record high of 587 days, or more than a year and a half, according to researchers at the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

As of June 30, fewer than 500 of the 57,000 have been sent home, and more children continue to arrive every day, despite pleas from the Obama administration to Central Americans not to come. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been tapped to coordinate the government’s response. Officials are scrambling to charter planes and buses, sending more agents to the border region, and hunting for more shelter sites and people to run them. Even the U.S. Coast Guard has been brought in to assist with transportation. “The recent dramatic increase is difficult and distressing on a lot of levels,” CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske said at a congressional hearing in July.

Child Labor workers in Tobacco Fields

A boy helps transport newly-harvested tobacco leaves at a farm in Currimao town, north of Manila on April 2, 2013

Worse yet, almost three-quarters of the children reported that exposure to nicotine and pesticides was making them sick, with vomiting, headaches, skin rashes, and other illnesses. Many of the symptoms were consistent with acute poisoning from nicotine, so-called Green Tobacco Sickness, a health risk specific to prolonged exposure to tobacco plants.

The report, released Wednesday, is intended to pressure tobacco companies to crack down on child labor in their supply chain and Congress to pass tougher laws to prevent children from working in hazardous agricultural jobs, including the handling of tobacco leaves, Becker said.

“As their school year ends, children are heading into the tobacco fields, where they can’t avoid being exposed to dangerous nicotine without smoking a single cigarette,” Margaret Wirth, co-author of the report, said in a statement. “It’s no surprise the children exposed to poisons in the tobacco fields are getting sick.”

The report is based on interviews with 141 child tobacco workers, ages 7 to 17, some of whom logged 50 or 60 hours per week. Most of them were the sons and daughters of Hispanic immigrants, children who attend school full time and work after school, on weekends, or during the summer months to help their families.

Although children are prohibited from buying cigarettes and other tobacco products, it is legal for them to work in agricultural jobs with some caveats. Children under 16 are prohibited from working in hazardous jobs or during school hours, and those under 14 need parental consent. (Children under 12 can work only on small farms).

About half of the 955,400 children living on farms worked for the family business in 2012, and another 259,000 nonresident youth worked in agriculture.

The labor tends to be more dangerous than other types of jobs. Youths working in agriculture are four times more likely to suffer a work-related death than young people employed in other fields.

In addition, some of the children interviewed said that pesticides were sometimes sprayed nearby, drifting onto the children as they worked and causing burning eyes, itchy skin, shortness of breath, and other symptoms. The report notes that some pesticides used on tobacco can cause long-term neurological damage and other health problems.

Human Rights Watch said nine of 10 tobacco companies responded to their inquiries and expressed concern about child labor in their supply chain, but the advocacy group deemed their responses inadequate. China National Tobacco did not respond. Philip Morris International (PM) had the most protective set of policies, the report said.

“This report uncovers serious child labor abuses that should not occur on any farm, anywhere,” André Calantzopoulos, chief executive of Philip Morris International, said in a statement. “More work remains to be done to eliminate child and other labor abuses in tobacco growing.’

Philip Morris’s policy dictates that for its suppliers, the minimum age for workers is 15 or the minimum age provided by that country’s laws. The company prohibits children under age 18 from performing any kind of hazardous work. On family farms, a child can help only if the work is light and the child is older than 13 or above the minimum age for light work as defined by the country’s laws.

When PMI implemented its child labor provisions into contracts with U.S. growers in 2012, the company ended up severing ties with 20 suppliers who couldn’t comply.

An official with the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association in Lexington, Ky., said he believed it was uncommon for children to work in tobacco farming.

“We don’t want to put anybody in harm’s way, particularly children,” said Steve Pratt, general manager of the association. While his group has discussed the issue, he said it doesn’t yet have a formal policy on youth labor. But he added that the association expects its members to comply with state and federal laws.

Human Rights Watch argues that tobacco is particularly hazardous to children. Tobacco workers can absorb nicotine through their skin by working with tobacco leaves, particularly when the plants are wet, the report says. Research on nonsmoking tobacco workers has found that they have similar levels of nicotine in their bodies as smokers.