Craig Kielburger, interviewed by Multinational Monitor

About the author: Craig Kielburger, a high school student from Toronto, Canada, is the founder of Free the Children, a student-run initiative to end child labor. He is interviewed by Multinational Monitor, a monthly journal that focuses on the issues of globalization, labor, the environment, and international trade.

The activism of Free the Children, a youth-run organization that urges consumers to buy child-labor-free products, proves the effectiveness of young people's involvement in campaigns against the use of child labor. The organization's activities—which include investigations of sweatshop conditions, letter-writing campaigns to governments and corporations, and international petitions promoting education and children's rights—have successfully encouraged governments to take direct steps to eliminate the use of child labor.

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