Combatting child labour crisis through Child Labour Free Zones in Ghana
Acknowledging a community leader Andrews Addoquaye Tagoe was awarded the 2023 National May Day Award for his remarkable efforts in combatting child labour and forced labour in Africa. Affectionately known as Andy among his close circle, this recognition acknowledges his tireless contribution to children’s rights including his involvement in rescuing over 4500 children from exploitative […]
Mobilising CSOs in Uganda: A Successful Strategy Against Child Labour
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Uganda are making significant strides in the fight against child labour, these CSOs operate under the umbrella structure of the Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN). Leveraging the existing network, the African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) and the Global March Against Child […]
From Beans to Cup: How coffee companies in Uganda’s Mt. Elgon are doing everything right to address child labour
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 coffee company are two such […]
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 Read More
Child marriage and child labour: Slavery is not dead in sugarcane
Originally published on Counterview.org In August 2020, Global March Against Child Labour released an evidence-based report, providing an overview of the situation of child labour with a gender lens in sugarcane harvesting in India. The report highlights that children are pushed into hazardous child labour due to structural poverty among harvesters, most of whom are from […]
30 years gone, so is my childhood, but hope is still alive
A letter from a former child labourer Dear leaders of the world, I am told that I was born in 1989, the same year when the world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). I have been notified that the world leaders […]
Revaluating Child Labour in Agriculture: The Sugarcane Case of India
The recorded evidences of slavery in sugarcane date back to 15th century, with armies of slaves being bought together, mostly from Western Africa to work on sugarcane farms on the New World Plantations. Peak of the 19th century saw more than 10 million Africans forcibly migrating to most of the sugarcane cultivation regions in what […]
Field Notes from Nepal
I recently had a chance to spend few days with our partner organisations in Nepal in last week of October 2018, who graciously agreed to host my visit to the country. This blog is meant to applaud the amazing work they are doing to advocate for and protect children’s rights, while also helping me to […]
What We Would All Be Missing
*This article has been written by Chairperson of Global March Against Child Labour, Timothy Ryan and was published in Thomson Reuters Foundation News. In February, 40 organizations convened a brainstorming workshop at a conference center south of London focused on a new development goal adopted by the United Nations: the eradication of forced labor, modern […]
Education in the Time of War: Harnessing the Potential of SDG 4
Education is not just a fundamental human right, but also an enabling right – essential for the exercise of individuals and communities at different levels. It plays a significant role in supporting survival, growth, development and well-being of nations and its children. Enhanced investment in education also contributes to higher income, individual empowerment and decreased […]