16 March 2012: UNICEF has recently released a report on state of children in an urban world. Over half the world’s people – including more than a billion children now live in cities and towns. While cities have long been associated with employment, development and economic growth, hundreds of millions […]
Financial Transaction Tax – It’s Back and Hopefully to Stay!
The debate on financial transaction tax (FTT) has once again been revived with French President, Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent announcement to introduce the same in the nation’s economy in August this year. Although seen by many as an election gimmick, the 0.1% tax that will be applicable to the purchase of […]
Child Labourers Killed in Lahore as Illegal Factory Caves Down after an Explosion
Monday was unfortunate for the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore where a factory illegally making veterinary medicines collapsed killing at least 10 women and three children. The blast at the three-storey building is believed to have been caused by a gas leak. As the rescue work at the site continues […]
Timothy (Tim) Ryan to represent Child Labour Coalition in the Governing Board of Global March Against Child Labour
Global March is pleased to announce that Mr. Timothy (Tim) Ryan, the Asia Regional Program Director for the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (“Solidarity Center”) has been unanimously elected to replace Ms Helen Toth of the Child Labor Coalition (CLC) in the Governing Board of Global March Against Child […]
Delay in Ratification of ILO Conventions 138 and 182 by Government of India Tarnishing Nation’s Image
Earlier in January this year, Union Minister of Labour and Employment Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, chaired the first meeting of the newly constituted Central Advisory Board on Child Labour. Citing child labour as a matter of grave concern staring in the face of our country, Mr. Kharge said that Ministry of […]
Children engaged in unsafe mining
According to Human Right Watch Report A Poisonous Mix Child Labor, Mercury, and Artisanal Gold Mining in Malipublished in December 2011 it is estimated that between 20,000 and 40,000 children work in Mali’s artisanal gold mining sector. Many of them start working as young as six years old. These children are subjected […]
76 countries rank high in child labour violations
A large number of 76 countries have been classified as ‘extremely risky’ in terms of child labour complicity for global companies on the Child Labour Index 2012 as per the recent annual study on human rights violations conducted by UK-based risk analysis firm Maplecroft. This represents an increase in global […]
California Transparency in Supply Chains Act 2010
The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 has drawn the focus of enterprises towards eliminating human trafficking within their spheres of impact. The law calls for greater supply chain accountability by requiring every retail seller and manufacturer doing business in California and having annual worldwide gross receipts that […]
Resources for public education and health eaten by global corporations
The world has enough for everybody’s need but not enough for everybody’s greed, said Mahatma Gandhi. A similar emotion evokes a new study by Education International Research Institute – Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services which has shown that a fortune worth trillions of dollars lost annually […]
Resources for public education and health eaten by global corporations
The world has enough for everybody’s need but not enough for everybody’s greed, said Mahatma Gandhi. A similar emotion evokes a new study by Education International Research Institute – Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services which has shown that a fortune worth trillions of dollars lost annually due to tax […]