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, […]
The Salt Solution: Ensuring sustainable income and preventing child labour in rural-coastal Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s rural coastal areas are home to some of the worst impacts of climate change contributing to migration, displacement, decreasing employment opportunities, increasing poverty and child labour. The frequent intensifying storms and floods not only destroy homes and livelihoods, but also contribute to higher water and soil salinity, leaving millions […]
Treating Child Labour through Food Security: A Cross Country Comparison
By Palak Gupta, for Global March Against Child Labour The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide, with 9 million additional children at risk due to the impact of COVID-19, as stated by UNICEF-ILO. One of the most prominent factors contributing to this menace is […]
Peru: Towards a new public policy on child labour
In the last session of the National Steering Committee for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour (CPETI, in Spanish), a quadripartite body – which includes civil society organisations, as well as governmental representatives, employers and workers, the reviewing process of the National Strategy for the Prevention and Eradication of […]
Opposing the PEC 18/2011: Statement by our network in South America
The Global March Against Child Labour (Global March) in the South American subregion, represented by organisations in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador and Peru, supports the position of Global March’s Brazilian member, National Forum for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labour (FNPETI, in portuguese) regarding the processing of […]
Remembering Carola Abrales, South America
The Global March Against Child Labour network, and in particular the Confederación de Trabajadores de la Educación de la República Argentina (CTERA) suffered a huge loss. A key and long standing member of the Global March movement in South America and a child rights supporter in Argentina, the former head […]
Heron Preston & Zellerfeld Campaign For A Cause- We thank you for your support!
The HERON01 is an exclusive collaboration between famed designer and artist Heron Preston and the 3D technology company Zellerfeld. With the launch of this sneaker, which is designed with 3D technology and is 100% recyclable, this powerful beauty supported Global March Against Child Labour in the fight to support children […]
2021 Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor
Norma Flores López | Regional Board Representative from North America, Global March Against Child Labour “It is truly an honor to represent my community. I am humbled to join the distinguished list of past recipients, and to share this year’s award with the International Labour Organization. I also share this award with […]
CHILD LABOR IS GROWING: WHICH SIDE ARE DEMOCRACIES ON?
This is the Year for the Elimination of Child Labor. What can democracies do to make this a reality? By Timothy Ryan | September 23, 2021 Two years ago, when Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro favorably promoted the idea of labor for children as young as eight or nine, his minister for Human […]