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...International Labor Organization, at least 1 million children are working as prostitutes in Asia. Sexual slavery feeds on destitution, and Asia, home to two-thirds of the world's extreme poor, offers plenty. The bust and stagnation of the past few years only made the problem worse. The ILO estimates that the flesh trade has mushroomed into a major regional industry, accounting for 2% to 14% of GDP in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand...
...Sudan, says the ILO, peasants trapped by civil war are selling their young sons to traveling merchants for as little as $70; in Haiti more than 100,000 children, sold or given away by poor families, toil as domestic servants, usually eating and sleeping apart from the privileged people they serve; and in Pakistan as many as 20 million people, 7.5 million of them children, are working as bonded laborers in factories, on farms and on construction projects, unable to pay off employer advances. The ILO warns that slavery-like practices also exist in countries as varied as Mauritania, India...
Over the past 15 years, however, the postwar spirit of internationalism seems to have waned and given way in this country to something quite different. Our behavior toward international organizations has become less supportive and our voice often petulant and shrill. We have left UNESCO, pulled out of the ILO for a time, rejected the World Court, threatened to leave the FAO, cut our contributions to the World Health Organization and the United Nations itself, and balked at supporting new initiatives by the World Bank...
...inhabitants are foreigners, and foreign visitors total 2 million a year.) Quite aside from the new arms- control conference, there has been a U.N. disarmament conference more or less permanently in session since 1962. Geneva is not only the European headquarters for the U.N. but world headquarters for ILO, WHO, GATT, UNCTAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization.* Also the International Commission of Jurists, the World Meteorological Association and the International Civil Aviation Organization. Not to mention less official institutions such as the World Scout Bureau, the World Council of Churches and the International Council of Osteopaths. Plus foreign business...
...payments to the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) That body had voted in favor of a resolution that cut off UNESCO funding to Israel for altering the historical features" of Jerusalem. In 1977 the Carter Administration withdrew from the U.N.-sponsored International Labor Organization (ILO) in response to that organization's attacks on U.S. policy in the Middle East. Two years later, explaining that the ILO had decided to return to its basic principles, the U S rejoined the Geneva-based body...