This film will serve as a catalyst for a broad international public advocacy and educational campaign that emphasizes best practice programs to end child labor, while promoting increased access for laboring children to education. The film calls for a Marshall Plan to assist 246 million children below fourteen years of age who labor in the global economy, with an emphasis on the 188 million who work in the most hazardous forms of child labor: bonded, slave, and forced labor, children in agriculture, children in manufacturing, children at dumpsites, working as domestics, migrant child workers and children coerced into drug trafficking or prostitution. Stolen Childhoods examines the impacts and interaction of public policy, poverty, prejudice, and profit on children. Also examined are the effects of globalization on children, the conduct of multinational corporations in exploiting children for profit, the role of international lending agencies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, and the role of the United States as the world's leading economy.

Tuesday, 10/21/08 from 4:30-5:30 a.m. ET