By Palak Gupta, for Global March Against Child Labour
The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide, with 9 million additional children at risk due to the impact of COVID-19, as stated by UNICEF-ILO. One of the most prominent factors contributing to this menace is
In the last session of the National Steering Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour (CPETI, in Spanish), a quadripartite body – which includes civil society organisations, as well as governmental representatives, employers and workers, the reviewing process of the National Strategy for the Prevention and Eradication of
The Global March Against Child Labour (Global March) in the South American subregion, represented by organisations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru, supports the position of Global March’s Brazilian member, National Forum for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour (FNPETI, in portuguese) regarding the processing of
On June 17, Global March members from Central America organised a virtual meeting on quality and inclusive education in times of COVID-19. The CAMPAIGN x EDUCATION of the Global March in Central America was presented. This campaign as well as the discussions held during the event were based on a regional reflection on
Global March carried out a study to analyse the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on child labor and education, collecting information from each of the following seven South American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru*.
On June 9, Global March members from South America in collaboration with
A Child Protection and Development Unit was established at Jaffna Teaching Hospital by CCH. Through this help-desk, child abuse cases can be reported and children and women who are in distress can have their immediate needs met.
Under this project, a legal desk was also established for providing free legal
Across the world, millions of children do extremely hazardous work in harmful conditions that prevents them from getting an education and is harmful to their physical, mental, or social development.
The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of 17 goals and 169 targets agreed by the world leaders and designed to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate change by 2030.
It is unfortunate that child labour is found in agriculture, to mining, from manufacturing to tourism- producing goods and services consumed by millions every day and the goods they produce are an integral part of the reality of global supply chains.
Education is a fundamental human right that no person can be denied, irrespective of their class, gender, race, economic and social conditions, disability, culture and beyond.
With 152 million child labourers and 40 million people in modern slavery, it has become imperative that the efforts are accelerated to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7.
Asia-Pacific region records the second highest prevalence of child labour in the world, with estimated 62 million children aged 5-14 years said to be working for their survival.
Africa has the largest number of child labourers; 72.1 million African children are estimated to be in child labour and 31.5 million in hazardous work.
Latin America region records the third highest prevalence of child labour in the world, with estimated 17.5 million children aged 5-14 years said to be working for their survival of which 11 million are in child labour
Child labour denies girls and boys their rights and often child labour may be involved in many supply chains such as in agriculture and fishing, manufacturing and mining, services..
The prevalence of gender-based violence and discrimination worldwide remains high...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi has been at the forefront of the global movement to end child slavery and exploitative child labour since 1980. Child labour is a human rights issue that has staggering effects on poverty, illiteracy and humanity. Mr. Satyarthi and the grassroots movement founded by him, Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save the Childhood Movement), have liberated more than 85,000+ children from exploitation and developed a successful model for their education and rehabilitation.
As a worldwide campaigner, he has been the architect of the single largest civil society network for the most exploited children, the Global March Against Child Labour, which is a worldwide coalition of NGOs, Teachers’ Unions and Trade Unions active in 103 countries. Mr. Satyarthi’s efforts led to the adoption of ILO Convention 182 on worst forms of child labour in 1999.
