On 29th August 2013, more than 300 children in New Delhi, India supported by adults marched to the Parliament demanding the passage of the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, which would prohibit hazardous work for all children below 18 years. It will also ban any employment of children […]
Human and Labour Rights’ Violations in Garment Supply Chains of leading brands
19 August 2013: In the wake of the tragic Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in April 2013, there has been an increasing desire by Australian consumers to know more about how their clothes are produced and how the workers that make them are treated. Most apparel travels through various […]
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) airs its latest documentary on Mr. Kailash Satyarthi’s initiative to rescue child slaves in India
Watch Fighting to Unravel India’s Widespread Child Labor Abuses on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
Former child bonded labourer awarded Global Education’s Youth Courage Award
New Delhi, 12, July, 2013; “Education and child labour share an inversely proportional relationship with each other. Education for all the children will remain a distant dream unless and until child labour is completely eliminated. For child labour to be completely abolished, free, compulsory and quality education is a must. […]
Despite a series of revelations for the Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning a blind eye
Admit it. You love cheap clothes. And you don’t care about child slave labour Despite a series of revelations for the Observer about the brutal conditions in garment factories, companies, western consumers and India are still complicit in turning a blind eye Gethin Chamberlain The Observer, Sunday 28 July 2013 Young […]
Remarks by Gordon Brown UN Special Envoy for Global Education
on Malala Day, July,13 at United Nations A former football stitcher, fifteen year old Razia Sultan symbolise real struggle and success from exploitation to education and is an inspiration to millions of girls who are trapped into vicious circle of child servitude, illiteracy and poverty. She herself has passed 11th […]
OP-Ed Article by Mr. Kailash Satyarthi: After Himalayan tsunami, children are at risk, need protection
Kailash Satyarthi, July 6, 2013, DHNS: The worst in Uttarakhand is far from over. What is visible is perhaps known to all but the invisible underbelly that is bloating under the aftermath of the Himalayan tsunami that devastated Rudraprayag, Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Pithoragarh districts has placed the children in these […]
Skipping the First Step to End Child Labor?
Laws are not enough to end child labor — we see that every time a new factory is found filled with children who should be in school. But making progress against child labor must begin with banning it. Laws set standards and norms, and affect what people see as acceptable. […]
Post-2015 forward looking, yet not urgent and ambitious
Global March Against Child Labour is the largest worldwide coalition of civil society, teachers and trade union organisations united in their determination to protect and promote the rights of all children, in particular the right to receive a free, meaning and good quality education and to be free from economic […]
Tobacco farmers exploiting child labor
The International Labor Organization, Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance and local NGOs want the government and industry to put a stop to child labor. “It is important that child laborers receive attention because they are often neglected and susceptible to violence from the industries in which they work,” the National […]