Member Updates

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 […]

For the last 16 years, BSAF has been organising Child Rights Week at the national and district levels in Bangladesh. The Child Rights Week is commemorated every year with a variety of events in which a huge number of children participate. This year the Government of Bangladesh declared 05 October […]

Swatantra Abhiyan Nepal (SAN) organised a virtual ‘Parliamentary Forum to End Forced Labour’ on 27 August 2020, to promote parliamentary efforts to address forced labour through ratification of ILO Convention 29 and other policy measures. The virtual event saw participation from 24 representatives from the Nepal government, 3 trade unions […]

CCH facilitated a 12 week ‘Smile Circles’ programme aimed at restoring child rights by promoting children’s participation in six villages of Jaffna, Columbo and Mullaiththivu districts in Sri Lanka, using a ‘Smile Circle Activities Guidebook’ for the facilitators. From July to September 2020, over 150 children participated and helped identify […]

From July 2020 onward, a total of 26 intervention group meetings were organised by Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF) and its local partners, Manob Unnayan Kendra (MUK), Nari- o- Shishu Kallayan Sangstha (NSKS) and Ladies Organization for Social Welfare (LOFS) with the 525 local community members, who will further assist […]

On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour, a national webinar on “National Symposium of Youth Leaders on Combating Child Labour” was organised on 12th-13th June 2020 in Kathmandu. The webinar adopted a Youth Deceleration to End Child Labour that demanded elimination of child labour through the combined […]

The National Child Protection Authority of Sri Lanka (NCPA) recently reported of a dramatic rise in child cruelty cases reported to the 1929 child helpline since the start of Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 curfew. To address the issue of violence against children, Global March member, CCH Sri Lanka responded to the […]

Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF)’s local partner, Manob Unnayan Kendra (MUK), facilitated a community group formation at Amjhupi union of Meherpur district on 24 June 2020, to reach out to community leaders, local authorities and community members for raising awareness on child labour, child marriage, child trafficking and other child […]

Article Courtesy: OPCION As part of the commemoration of the World Day against Child Labour, the Global March against Child Labour Latin America, a network of which Corporación Opción has been a member since 1998, held the Virtual Dialogue yesterday, 16 June “Child and Adolescent Labour: Covid-19 and Post-Pandemic in […]

by Henrietta Namava Nakhulo The recently conducted national census of 2019 showed that a total of 46,639 Kenyans are living on the streets across the country. The city of Nairobi has the highest number of street population at 15,337, followed by Mombasa (7529), Kisumu (2746), Uasin Gishu (2147) & Nakuru […]

The last two decades have seen significant strides in the fight against child labour. But the COVID-19 pandemic poses very real risks of backtracking.1 Positive trends may falter, and child labour may worsen, especially in places where it has remained resistant to change. These risks require urgent action to prevent and mitigate […]

By Tânia Mara Dornellas dos Santos, FNPETI, Brazil It is without a doubt the world is going through a historical moment with the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 is already evident in various dimensions of social, political, economical and cultural life on a global scale. In Brazil, the restrictions […]

Global March member, CCH Sri Lanka in collaboration with Department of Probation and Child Care Services, District Child Development Committee (National Child Protection authority of Sri Lanka) organised a Child Rights Symposium on 23 December 2019 at Hotel Tilco in Colombo, Sri Lanka, with the participation of over 80 actors […]

Global March member, Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF) under the project “Strengthening the movement in Asia to protect girls and boys from child labour, trafficking while promoting decent work and education” organised 7 advocacy dialogue sessions in 7  constituencies (Rajshahi, Meherpur, Natore, Patuakhali, Jessore, Jhenaidah and Chittagong) with the local […]

Global March Nepal member, Swatantrata Abhiyan (SAN) organised a National Symposium on Child Protection with focus on child labour and forced labour in collaboration with DUCOM, Consortium Nepal, HRTNCC, NCFLG, Girls Coalition, CZOP, Education Watch Group, Good Weave Foundation, Saath Saath, CWISH, Biswas Nepal, Loo Niva on 20th December 2019. […]

Global March member, National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) and its allies held a formal meeting with the National Planning Authority (NPA) of Government of Uganda to submit a draft report of Voluntary National Review (VNR) of the SDGs prepared by 10 members from 5 CSOs in Uganda on their […]

Global March Tanzanian member, ANPPCAN Tanzania organised a meeting with the members of the Parliamentarians Without Borders for Children’s Rights- Tanzania Chapter on 22nd October, 2019  in Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania. The meeting involved 15 Parliamentarians and 2 ANPPCAN members, and 2 officials from the office of the Commissioner […]

On 4 November 2019, Global March Against Child Labour staff and Anglophone Regional Coordinator and Board Member, visited the Kibangu English Medium School in Dar Es Salaam and interacted with the  Child Rights Club members established at the school level with the support of Global March’s member, ANPPCAN Tanzania. The […]

In October 2019, Global March Against Child Labour in collaboration with its Togolese member, WAO-Afrique, organised the Sub-regional Francophone Africa level meeting of the Parliamentarians Without Borders for Children’s Rights with participation of 6 Parliamentarians and 5 civil society organisations from 6 Francophone Africa countries- Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote […]

On 5-7 November 2019, Global March Against Child Labour in collaboration with ANPPCAN Tanzania organised  a capacity building and experience sharing workshop for its East African Global March members in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.  The workshop saw participation from 6 members of trade unions and child rights organisations from Kenya, […]

A teachers training was organised by ANPPCAN-Tanzania on child rights for facilitating child rights clubs. The training was done on 13th June, 2019 at Hubert Kairuki Memorial University. This training brought together 8 primary school teachers from 4 schools who were. The teachers were facilitated on awareness of child rights. […]

Under the project of “Expanding the Child Rights Zone in Sri Lanka” funded by Global March, actors in the civil society organization and government were approached through the capacity development and advocacy initiatives to enable them as contributors to address the issues of emotions abuse and corporal punishment against children […]

Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), with the support of Terre des hommes Netherlands (TdH-NL) and Global Against Child Labour organiSed a National Consultation titled “Implementation of ILO C182: Opportunities and Challenges” on 26 September 2019. The Consultation was attended by Mr. Md. Fazle  Rabbi Miah, MP, Honorable Deputy Speaker  of […]

State Parliamentary Forum: Sudurpaschim Province Level Discussion with Parliamentarians Swatantrata Abhiyan, Nepal in collaboration with Ministry of Social Development organised Sudurpaschim Province Level Discussion with Parliamentarians on Countering Human Trafficking and Child Labour on 6th July 2019 at Hotel Devotee, Dhangadhi, Kailali. The meeting was attended by 36 Parliamentarians and […]

GMACL partner in Uganda, NOTU held a meeting with the National Planning Authority of Uganda, which is responsible for submitting the Voluntary National Review (VNR), to encourage the inclusion of reporting on SDG 8.7 and CSO participation. Further, NOTU set up two informal meetings with 10 CSOs, working on diverse […]

ANPPCAN Tanzania convened the Tanzania Chapter meeting of Parliamentarians Without Borders for Children’s Rights in April 2019 where they presented a concept note to the MPs, finalised the PWB guidelines and initiated a dialogue on key issues of child labour and trafficking, out of school children, expanding budgets for children […]

On June 25-26, Global March Against Child Labour Regional Forum on Achieving SDG 8.7 was organised in Costa Rica with the aim to understand the situation of child labour and adolescents in work in the region and to decide on a joint way forward to address the issue. The workshop […]

Global March’s implementing partner in Sri Lanka, Centre for Children’s Happiness (CCH Sri Lanka) convened the Network Forum or the Parliamentarians Without Borders- Sri Lanka Chapter that brought together diverse political leaders and parliamentarians, to disseminate knowledge and information about Sri Lanka’s child rights situation. The forum, held on 11th […]

Global March Against Child Labour’s (Global March) implementing partner in Nepal, Swatantrata Abhiyan (SAN), is working towards mobilizing the youth to vigorously participate in advocating the eradication of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking. On 13th May 2019, SAN organised a ‘Youth campaign to end Child Labour, Forced Labour […]

On 15 May 2019, Parliamentary Caucus on Child Rights of Bangladesh was constituted and a kick off meeting was organised at IPD Conference Hall at Sher- E- Bangla, Dhaka. Prior to the kick -off meeting, a small meeting was held at Deputy Speaker’s office where in the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson […]

In Indonesia, Global March partner, JARAK convened five provincial level dialogues, covering around 100 stakeholders and highlighting pertinent issues across different provinces, such as child domestic labour, child labour in fisheries and plantations, child trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of children. Some of the key recommendations collated during these dialogues […]

In Nepal, Global March implementing partner, Swatantrata Abhiyan (SAN) trained 15 youth champions on understanding and promoting SDGs for child protection and ending child labour. These youth champions further sensitised 405 Social Work graduate students from 9 Colleges in Kathmandu valley, as a part of their orientation program.  The youth […]

Global March’s partner in Uganda, National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) organised a National Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on ILO convention 138 (minimum age to employment) took place on 11th and 12th December at Eureka Place Hotel in Kampla which was attended by participants from civil society, trade unions, workers’ organizations, employers’ […]

Speakers: Child labour will create skilled labour crisis in 2030 Published at 08:54 pm November 12th, 2018 Speakers at a discussion titled ‘Elimination of Child Labour in Informal Sector: Challenges and Way Forward for Achieving SDG 8.7,’ organized by Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF) at the CIRDAP Auditorium on Monday; […]

Global March’s partner in Kenya, ANPPCAN Regional conducted a comprehensive review of current laws policies and programmes that concern the issue of child labour and violence against children in the country, under the project ” Strengthening worldwide movement for the protection of children from violence at work” supported by Global […]

Global March’s Togolese partner, WAO-Afrique along with the dedicated Parliamentary group formed for promoting children’s rights in Togo, called the PSF-Togo, organised vocational training of more than hundred young pupils on seamstresses and hairdressing apprentices. They also donated training kits to 15 apprentices.    WAO-Afrique’s Director, Mr. Cleophas Mally along with PSF-Togo […]

ANPPCAN Tanzania is implementing a three year project on child labour and human trafficking. This was pointed out by Mr. Daudi Chanila, the ANPPCAN Secretary General for ANPPCAN Tanzania Chapter in an exclusive interview. He said that ANPPCAN Tanzania Chapter in collaboration with Global March Initiative are implementing a three […]