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Artists Shine a Light on Child Labour Through Interactive Art Campaigns on Streets of New York
News 18Children’s faces appear locked in the jaws of a sinister factory robot or warily peeping out behind New York landmarks in an interactive street art campaign launched this week to raise awareness about child trafficking and underage labor. Nine striking pieces commissioned by Street Art for Mankind – an artistic movement fighting child trafficking – can be seen on dozens of billboards across New York City. “It’s such a great tool to raise awareness on these issues, because child labor and trafficking are issues people don’t necessarily want to hear about,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video call. Last month, a group of academics criticized the U.N. goal to end child labor as impractical and out of touch, and child poverty researcher Alula Pankhurst said anti-child labor efforts should contemplate widely divergent circumstances.
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