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Rafiat Kasumu Sociology April 26, 2011 **Vocabulary List**

**Bonded labor –** type of slavery. Employers offer a loan to a family or individual who must then work to pay it back.

**Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)** – humanitarian organizations that do not operate as part of a government agency.

**Trafficking –** moving people from one place to another and forcing them to work.

**Convention** – an understanding or agreement between countries.

**Convention of the Rights of a Child (CRC)** – an international treaty that states the civil. Political, and human rights of children; adopted by the United Nations General assembly.

**Ratify** – to agree to the terms of a treaty and promise to obey it.

**UNICEF** - United Nations Children's Fund: an agency, created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946,  concerned with improving the health and nutrition   of children and mothers throughout the world ; Nobel Peace Prize 1965.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">**ILO** - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">a specialized agency of the United Nations working through <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">member nations to improve <span style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">working conditions throughout <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 16px;"> the world; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">originally an affiliate of the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">League of Nations: Nobel peace prize <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">1969. <span class="labset" style="color: #333333; display: inline; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="ital-inline" style="color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">Abbreviation: // <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">ILO, I.L.O.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">**Culture** - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;"> manners, scholarly pursuits, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">etc.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">**Child abuse** - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">mistreatment of a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">child by a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">parent or guardian, including neglect, <span style="color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">beating, and sexual <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">molestation.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Labor** - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: static;">productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">**NCPCR** – the National Commission of Protection of Child Right, a non-governmental organization that implement actions and laws to protect the rights of children.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">**Domestic** - of or pertaining to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">** Minor ** - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">a person under the legal age of full responsibility.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 14px;">**Child Labor** - work that exceeds a minimum number of hours, depending on the age of a child and on the type of work. Such work is considered harmful to the child and should therefore be eliminated.