Asia Quote by Lawrence Summers

“A 2003 report by a division of the Cyprus government recently reported that more than 2,000 women a year, particularly those arriving from Eastern…

— Christiane Northrup

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to…

— Lewis Hine

“Each year, nearly 12,000 Nepali girls are sold by their families, intentionally o r unwittingly, into a life of sexual slavery in the brothels…

— Patricia McCormick

“No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all…

— Tom Carter

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out…

— Juan Somavia

In [India] and across the globe, hundreds and thousands of children, as young as three, as young as four, are sold into sexual slavery.…

— Sunitha Krishnan

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of…

— Brian Eno

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is…

— Carol Bellamy

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society…

— Margaret Halsey

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their…

— Mike Rowe

Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

— Paul Achleitner

“...the PRC's stringent population control program has divided children into two opposing categories based on their perceived level of 'quality.' Although urban little emperors…

— Leslie K. Wang