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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The Salt Solution: Ensuring sustainable income and preventing child labour in rural-coastal Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s rural coastal areas are home to some of the worst impacts of climate change contributing to migration, displacement, decreasing employment opportunities, increasing poverty and child labour. The frequent intensifying storms and floods not only destroy homes and livelihoods, but also contribute to higher water and soil salinity, leaving millions
Using area based approach to address child labour in coffee supply chain in Uganda
Project: Addressing Child Labour in Agricultural Supply Chains, Global to Local
Donor – Bread for the World
Country: Uganda
In Uganda’s coffee growing regions, children as young as 10 are engaged in various tasks and hazardous conditions related to coffee farming, from working on the farms in extreme weathers to
PRISE DE POSITION DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE LE TRAVAIL DES ENFANTS EN AFRIQUE : PRIORITÉS URGENTES DU CONTINENT
PRISE DE POSITION DE LA SOCIÉTÉ CIVILE LE TRAVAIL DES ENFANTS EN AFRIQUE : PRIORITÉS URGENTES DU CONTINENT
Prise de position sur les priorités urgentes sur les questions du travail des enfants en Afrique, élaboré par les OSC pour contribution à la 5e Conférence mondiale sur l’élimination du travail des
Civil Society Position Paper on Child Labour in Africa: Urgent Priorities from the Continent
Civil Society Position Paper on Child Labour in Africa: Urgent Priorities from the Continent
Joint CSO paper on urgent priorities on the issues of child labour in Africa, developed as input for the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in South Africa.
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Treating Child Labour through Food Security: A Cross Country Comparison
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
Prioritising Agro-Rural Areas with Holistic and Community Participatory Initiatives to Accelerate Progress towards Elimination of Child Labour
A recent publication by Global March Against Child Labour, in a Journal of Modern Slavery, guest edited by Cindy Berman and Urmila Bhoola.
Peru: Towards a new public policy on child labour
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
Opposing the PEC 18/2011: Statement by our network in South America
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