PRESS RELEASE: “Punishing Children through Exploitation and Poverty”. Global Civil Society and Trade Unions Demand Urgent Action for a Child Labour Free Future as the 2025 SDG 8.7 Deadline Approaches Unfulfilled.
By: Global March Against Child Labour
Brussels,
20th March 2025
Brussels, 20-03-2025
Global civil society and trade union leaders,
As the world falls short of SDG 8.7’s 2025 target, the fight against child labour demands renewed urgency, bold commitments, and systemic change. This document presents the outcomes of a high-level strategy meeting convened by the Global March Against Child Labour, bringing civil society, trade unions, and key allies together
Acknowledging a community leader
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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
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
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