Project: Addressing Child Labour in Agricultural Supply Chains, Global to Local
Donor – Bread for the World
Country: Uganda
In Uganda’s coffee growing regions, children as young as 10 are engaged in various tasks and hazardous conditions related to coffee farming, from working on the farms in extreme weathers to
With 152 million child labourers and 40 million people in modern slavery, it has become imperative that the efforts are accelerated to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7. Alliance 8.7 is a global partnership for eradicating forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour around the world. The […]
Asia-Pacific region records the second highest prevalence of child labour in the world, with estimated 62 million children aged 5-14 years said to be working for their survival. Millions have never been to school not enrolled in school and many dropout of the school every year. Although there has been […]
Africa has the largest number of child labourers; 72.1 million African children are estimated to be in child labour and 31.5 million in hazardous work. While some progress was still reported in rest of the world between2012-2016, reductions in child labour in Sub-Saharan Africa were stalled. The agriculture sector accounts […]
Latin America region records the third highest prevalence of child labour in the world, with estimated 17.5 million children aged 5-14 years said to be working for their survival of which 11 million are in child labour and the remaining 6.5 million in hazardous work. In comparison with other regions, […]
What is Global March doing to address child labour? To address the root causes of child labour, Global March Against Child Labour has developed these interventions: Using area-based approaches to build child friendly communities and supply chains We believe that systemic change can only be achieved when the affected – […]
The prevalence of gender-based violence and discrimination worldwide remains high. In this context, Global March’s gender responsive intervention will pay particular attention to the vulnerabilities that girls and young women face such as sexual violence, early and forced marriages, forced labour, child labour, trafficking, barriers in access to education, etc. […]