Winner of 'Face of Tertiary' pageant embarks on anti-child labor campaign

Beautiful winner of 2012 edition of Face of Tertiary pageant, Esinam Amegbanu, is embarking on an anti-child labour campaign to help curb the menace of child labour in Ghanaian communities.

The campaign is dubbed ‘Save A Child TV Documentary’, and it will be in the form of a TV documentary.

It will be shown twice every week within 15 minutes on some of Ghana’s popular TV stations. There are 26 episodes.

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Man searches for stories behind faces of child labor photos

Photographer Lewis Hine is well known for his iconic pictures of workers high atop the Empire State Building. But before becoming famous for snapping pictures above the streets of New York, Hine worked as an anti-child labor investigator.

Between 1908 and 1924, Hine worked for a private advocacy organization, The National Child Labor Committee. Over the course of 16 years, he took more than 5,000 pictures of children working, often illegally, in mills and mines across the United States.

The photos were meant to shock Americans into reforming child labor laws. Almost 75 years after labor reform was enacted though, one man is still haunted by the photos.

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Matthew Shepard - The 14th Annversary

Just past midnight on October 7, 1998, one of the most horrific anti-gay hate crimes in American history took place in Laramie, Wyoming. Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old college student, was abducted by two men, tied to a fence, beaten with the butt of a pistol and left to die. A bicyclist found his body 18 hours later and on October 12 at 12:53 a.m. Shepard died in a hospital with his family beside him.

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Anti-Salmon-Farming activist wins court victory

An anti-salmon-farming activist has won another victory against the global aquaculture industry, but also has been harshly criticized by a B.C. Supreme Court justice

Justice Elaine Adair has dismissed a defamation case launched by the salmon-farming company Mainstream Canada against Don Staniford over a 2011 campaign that included images of cigarette-like packages and statements such as "Salmon Farming Kills Like Smoking."

In her ruling published Friday, Adair said while the statements were defamatory and Staniford was motivated by malice, the activist honestly believed in what he was saying and animosity wasn't his dominant purpose.

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