Child Labour: Global Estimates & Trends
World Day Against Child Labor 2024 In 2002, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) declared June 12 to be the World Day Against Child Labour. The purpose of this world day is to raise awareness about child labor, as it remains a major problem that deprives children of their childhood and innocence. According to the United Nations (UN), child labour can be defined as, “work performed by children who are [...]
Recordings of the Webinar “Climate Change & Human Displacement”
Climate Change & Human Displacement: an appeal to listen to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor On April 8th, the Scalabrini International Migration Institute co-organized the webinar Climate Change and Human Displacement. This was the third webinar in the international and ecumenical Migration, Ethics, and Theology webinar series, an ongoing conversation aimed at promoting dialogue on migration between theologians, migration scholars, church and civic [...]
SIMI Talk with Mary Brown
With Mary Brown, director of the archives of the Center for Migration Studies, we talk about how the presence of Scalabrinians in North America has changed from the first mission to today as well as of the importance of research and study in pastoral care. Mary Brown received her doctorate in 1987 from Columbia University in the City of New York partly on the strength of her dissertation on [...]
Recordings of the Webinar “Communicating Migration”
On February 14th 2024, SIMI organized the webinar Communicating Migration: Resistance, Resilience, and Activism. We share the welcoming speech of Fr. Aldo Skoda, director of SIMI, and recordings of the speakers' speeches. "Thank you for joining us. Migration has indeed become a defining feature of the social, cultural, economic, political and religious life of a world increasingly characterized by the controversial forces of globalization as well as by ongoing [...]
