Childhoods lost in the gold mines In a cramped mine, Théophile, said to be 7, fills a bucket with shards from the walls. The U.N. says as many as a million children work in the mines for as little as $2 a day. (LARRY C. PRICE / For […]
UN Special Envoy on Education agrees to the demand of Global March
April 23, 2013 Washington DC – Mr. Gordon Brown, UN Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of United Kingdom has agreed to include a major demand of Global March Against Child Labour in his agenda for the next UN General Assembly. The Chairperson of Global March, Mr. Kailash Satyarthi […]
Global March presents report “Child Labour in Cocoa Farming in Côte d’Ivoire”
18 April 2013, Washington D.C: Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, Chairperson, Global March Against Child Labour who was in Washington D.C. on the invitation of Mr. Gordon Brown, Education Envoy to UN Secretary General for series of events planned in conjunction to the IMF World Bank Development Committee, presented the latest report […]
Modern-day slavery: an explainer
What is modern-day slavery? About 150 years after most countries banned slavery – Brazil was the last to abolish its participation in the transatlantic slave trade, in 1888 – millions of men, women and children are still enslaved. Contemporary slavery takes many forms, from women forced into prostitution, to child slavery […]
4th International Meeting Against Child Labour in Mexico
The 4th International Meeting Against Child Labour was held recently on 21st March 2013 in Mexico. Organised by Fundación Telefónica in collaboration with ILO, UNESCO – Santiago de Chile Office, and the Government of the State of Mexico, the purpose of the 4th Meeting was to contribute to the Third […]
Trafficking of children for physical exploitation, slavery or practices similar to slavery and servitude is now a crime under the Indian Penal Code
21 March 2013, New Delhi: After a long struggle staged by the civil society organizations and anti child labour organizations, the Parliament of India has passed the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2013. With the President’s assent, the Bill will be notified as an Act soon. This Bill has replaced the […]
Kailash Satyarthi trae a México su estrategia contra el trabajo infantil
KARLA GARDUÑO Sábado, 16 marzo, 2013 Cerca de 200 millones de niños en el mundo están dejando de vivir su infancia al ser víctimas del trabajo infantil. La problemática toca a todos los países, aunque cada vez importa menos, advierte Kailash Satyarthi, fundador en 1998 de la Marcha Global contra el […]
International Women’s Day: Time to Stop Violence Against Children and Women
8 March 2013 – This year the United Nation’s theme for International Women’s Day is: ‘A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women.’ For millions of girls and women, violence is more than an ‘observance’, it is the harsh reality of everyday. UN Secretary General […]
Family Reunion – Day of Celebration
Gazale Salame and her children returned home to her husband and her two older daughters on Sunday March third. The family had been seperated for 8 long years due to legal and political complications of German Authorities. An increase pressure created by German citizens, foreign NGOs, outspoken Journalists and some […]
Child Labour in Livestock Sector: Unrecognised and Ignored
Child labour in livestock is widespread and largely ignored, accordingly to Food and Organization’s recent publication,Children’s work in the livestock sector: Herding and beyond – the first global study on the subject. Noting that agriculture accounts for the highest proportion of global child labour across economic sectors (60% as per ILO statistics), […]