Updates From Our Partners

On 5-7 November 2019, Global March Against Child Labour in collaboration with ANPPCAN Tanzania organised  a capacity building and experience sharing workshop for its East African Global March members in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.  The workshop saw participation from 6 members of trade unions and child rights organisations from Kenya,

A teachers training was organised by ANPPCAN-Tanzania on child rights for facilitating child rights clubs. The training was done on 13th June, 2019 at Hubert Kairuki Memorial University. This training brought together 8 primary school teachers from 4 schools who were. The teachers were facilitated on awareness of child rights.

Under the project of “Expanding the Child Rights Zone in Sri Lanka” funded by Global March, actors in the civil society organization and government were approached through the capacity development and advocacy initiatives to enable them as contributors to address the issues of emotions abuse and corporal punishment against children

Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), with the support of Terre des hommes Netherlands (TdH-NL) and Global Against Child Labour organiSed a National Consultation titled “Implementation of ILO C182: Opportunities and Challenges” on 26 September 2019. The Consultation was attended by Mr. Md. Fazle  Rabbi Miah, MP, Honorable Deputy Speaker  of

State Parliamentary Forum: Sudurpaschim Province Level Discussion with Parliamentarians
Swatantrata Abhiyan, Nepal in collaboration with Ministry of Social Development organised Sudurpaschim Province Level Discussion with Parliamentarians on Countering Human Trafficking and Child Labour on 6th July 2019 at Hotel Devotee, Dhangadhi, Kailali. The meeting was attended by 36 Parliamentarians and

GMACL partner in Uganda, NOTU held a meeting with the National Planning Authority of Uganda, which is responsible for submitting the Voluntary National Review (VNR), to encourage the inclusion of reporting on SDG 8.7 and CSO participation. Further, NOTU set up two informal meetings with 10 CSOs, working on diverse

ANPPCAN Tanzania convened the Tanzania Chapter meeting of Parliamentarians Without Borders for Children’s Rights in April 2019 where they presented a concept note to the MPs, finalised the PWB guidelines and initiated a dialogue on key issues of child labour and trafficking, out of school children, expanding budgets for children

On June 25-26, Global March Against Child Labour Regional Forum on Achieving SDG 8.7 was organised in Costa Rica with the aim to understand the situation of child labour and adolescents in work in the region and to decide on a joint way forward to address the issue. The workshop

Global March’s implementing partner in Sri Lanka, Centre for Children’s Happiness (CCH Sri Lanka) convened the Network Forum or the Parliamentarians Without Borders- Sri Lanka Chapter that brought together diverse political leaders and parliamentarians, to disseminate knowledge and information about Sri Lanka’s child rights situation. The forum, held on 11th

Global March Against Child Labour’s (Global March) implementing partner in Nepal, Swatantrata Abhiyan (SAN), is working towards mobilizing the youth to vigorously participate in advocating the eradication of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking. On 13th May 2019, SAN organised a ‘Youth campaign to end Child Labour, Forced Labour