Uganda’s Mt. Elgon region is known for Arabica coffee production with a quality and taste that is amongst many other things, unusual. It also has community driven coffee cooperatives and companies with ethics and spirit of giving back to the community. The Mt. Elgon coffee and honey cooperative and Kikobero
Western Consumers, South Asian Workers – A Conflict Forgotten by Whom?
Timothy Ryan
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2022, pp. 23-30 (Article)
Published by Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/gia.2022.0005
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Child marriage and child labour: Slavery is not dead in sugarcane
Originally published on Counterview.org
In August 2020, Global March Against Child Labour released an evidence-based report, providing an overview of the situation of child labour with a gender lens in sugarcane harvesting in India. The report highlights that children are pushed into hazardous child labour due to structural poverty among harvesters,
30 years gone, so is my childhood, but hope is still alive
A letter from a former child labourer
Dear leaders of the world,
I am told that I was born in 1989, the same year when the world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). I have been
Revaluating Child Labour in Agriculture: The Sugarcane Case of India
The recorded evidences of slavery in sugarcane date back to 15th century, with armies of slaves being bought together, mostly from Western Africa to work on sugarcane farms on the New World Plantations. Peak of the 19th century saw more than 10 million Africans forcibly migrating to most of the
Field Notes from Nepal
I recently had a chance to spend few days with our partner organisations in Nepal in last week of October 2018, who graciously agreed to host my visit to the country. This blog is meant to applaud the amazing work they are doing to advocate for and protect children’s rights,
What We Would All Be Missing
*This article has been written by Chairperson of Global March Against Child Labour, Timothy Ryan and was published in Thomson Reuters Foundation News.
In February, 40 organizations convened a brainstorming workshop at a conference center south of London focused on a new development goal adopted by the United Nations:
Education in the Time of War: Harnessing the Potential of SDG 4
Education is not just a fundamental human right, but also an enabling right – essential for the exercise of individuals and communities at different levels. It plays a significant role in supporting survival, growth, development and well-being of nations and its children. Enhanced investment in education also contributes to higher
Moving Beyond Primary Education to End Child Labour
Far too many children, adolescents and youth (264.3 million) are currently out of school due to a number of factors relating to their living conditions, financial constraints and social adversities. Education is a key to end this roadblock, escape poverty, end child labour and lead a life of dignity. However,
Everywhere But Invisible: Girl Child Labourers in Agriculture
“She is barefoot, covered in dirt and sweat. She can be seen pulling weeds from rows of sugarcane; a work reserved for adults, not children. She can only wear a cap to protect her from the scorching sunlight, rain or storm and goes back home after a working day of