With less than a year left for the Education for All goals deadline, it is disturbing to note that none of the six goals would be met by 2015. The 11th‘Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2013/4: Teaching and Learning: Achieving Quality for All’ launched by UNESCO, tracks the progress towards […]
ILO Global Employment Trends 2014- Risk of a Jobless Recovery?
International Labour Organisation (ILO) released its report on Global Employment Trends 2014 providing the latest global and regional information and projections on various indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. The following are the key highlights in the 120-page report: Global unemployment increased […]
Global March and Partner Organisations Make an Urgent Appeal to Bolivian President
January 24, 2014: Global March Against Child Labour along with its partner organisations and Anti-Slavery International, Human Rights Watch submitted a letter to Bolivian President Evo Morales opposing the discourse to lower the minimum age of employment to 12 (which is 14 at present as per the Children and Adolescent […]
Union Labour Minister on India reaffirms his support for the Child Labour Amendment Bill
January 21, 2014, New Delhi Global March Against Child Labour has for long advocated for amending the anti-child labour law of India. Supporting Global March in this initiative has been its Indian partner organisation Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA). With the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour upholding most of the recommendations […]
Global March’s “Not Made by Children” initiative has been covered in the latest Quarterly Bulletin on Business & Children
Global March’s “Not Made by Children” initiative has been covered in the latest Quarterly Bulletin on Business & Children http://beta.globalmarch.org/quarterly-bulletin-business-and-children-dec-2013.pdf
India gets one step closer to a strong anti-child labour law
Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour Submits Report on Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2012 The 13th of December, 2013 marked a significant milestone for child rights organisations in India when the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Labour submitted its report on the Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Amendment Bill, […]
Child Labourers cannot wait anymore… Global March in follow-up of Brasilia Declaration
December 13, 2013 The 2nd Global Child Labour Conference at The Hague earlier in 2010 had marked the beginning of a journey towards the elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016. In the backdrop of ILO pegging the number of child labourers at 168 million world over, […]
Global March partner IDEMI (Panama) calls upon the 7 Presidential candidates of the forthcoming elections to include the well-being of children as a priority in their agends
Global March partner IDEMI (Panama) calls upon the 7 Presidential candidates of the forthcoming elections to include the well-being of children as a priority in their agends http://www.change.org/petitions/act%C3%BAa-con-la-ni%C3%B1ez-para-que-lo…
Global March dedicates International Human Rights Day to ‘Madiba’
Universal Declaration of Human Rights forms the backbone of freedom, justice, peace and equity in the society. It lays down the framework for the Member States of the United Nations to uphold the dignity of all people so that they are able to realise their potential and progressively contribute to […]
Brasil retrocedeu no combate ao trabalho infantil, diz especialista – Kailash Satyarthi’s interview in Folha de S.Paulo
RAQUEL BOCATOCOLABORAÇÃO PARA A FOLHA Líder mundial no trabalho para erradicar o trabalho infantil, o indiano Kailash Satyarthi, 59, diz que o Brasil deu um salto, há alguns anos, na redução do número de crianças nessa situação. Mas que, recentemente, houve um retrocesso, especialmente nas que realizam serviços domésticos e nos […]