Articles by Neil Howard

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When NGOs Save Children Who Don’t Want to Be Saved
Neil Howard – Al Jazeera, 1 May 2017

Western media misrepresent voluntary child labour as slavery.

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More of the Same in the Fight Against Child Labor
Neil Howard – Dissent Magazine, 12 Sep 2011

The ” ‘abolitionist approach’ to child labor represents mainstream institutional and political thought about how best to protect the world’s children from economic exploitation,” writes Neil Howard. “But the evidence suggests that it doesn’t work.” Child workers and their families are “caught between the structural injustice that hollows out their incomes and well-meaning but misguided campaigns that prevent them from doing anything about it.”

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