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Blackboard March By Children To Demand Law For Free, Compulsory Education
New Delhi , 21 February 2006: Today, over 1000 children led the Blackboard March from the Jantar Mantar to the Parliament to make the country’s elected leaders look and listen to their demand for a fast action to make the Right to Education Bill 2005into a Law. The children symbolically […]
UN Finally Puts Child Slavery on Development Agenda
September 28, 2015 | Tim Ryan Last week the United Nations passed its next set of commitments for development, the “Sustainable Development Goals,” for the coming 15 years and added important labor issues that its member states are obligated to prioritize. “This is significant,” said child labor crusader and Nobel Prize […]
Remarks by Gordon Brown UN Special Envoy for Global Education
on Malala Day, July,13 at United Nations A former football stitcher, fifteen year old Razia Sultan symbolise real struggle and success from exploitation to education and is an inspiration to millions of girls who are trapped into vicious circle of child servitude, illiteracy and poverty. She herself has passed 11th […]
The impact of agricultural trade on labour markets, The impact of agricultural trade on labour markets
A new ILO/UNCTAD book highlights the role of agricultural trade in creating jobs and alleviating poverty around the world. GENEVA – A new book edited by UNCTAD and the International Labour Organization (ILO) stresses that agricultural trade can be an opportunity for creating jobs and alleviating poverty around the […]
Final report of 2010 Global Child Labour Conference
The final report of the Global Child Labour Conference held in The Hague, May 2010, is now available from the conference organisers, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment of the Netherlands and the International Labour Organization (ILO). Over 500 representatives from 97 countries around the world participated attended the […]