By Agustiyanti on 8:25 am June 3, 2013.Category Featured, NewsTags: Indonesia child labor, Indonesia economy, Indonesia poverty Still in her uniform, a girl sells newspapers after school in Solo, Central Java. High levels of poverty mean child labor remains widespread in Indonesia. (JG Photo/Ali Lutfi) The government is aiming to put an end to […]
Global March Regional Coordinator GAWU to empower cocoa farms
GAWU to empower cocoa farmers The General Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) of Trade Union Congress, has developed strategies to promote and to organise cocoa farmers around farm and non-farm economic activities to eliminate child labour. The strategies are to support national efforts towards the elimination of all forms of child […]
Light at the end of the tunnel for missing children of India – a communiqué from the Chairperson of Global March Against Child Labour
Dear Friends, With great pleasure, I share my joy and accomplishment with you. As I write to you, I am holding a copy of the landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of India that will have far reaching impact on the lives of millions of children. This historic judicial verdict […]
General Comment on “State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights” by the Committee on the Rights of the Child
Recently, the Committee on the Rights of the Child has issued General Comment No. 16 (2013) on State obligations regarding the impact of the business sector on children’s rights. Recognising that States have obligations regarding the impact of business activities and operations on children’s rights arising from the Convention on […]
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 […]
National Consultation on Child Trafficking and Child Labour
A two day National Consultation on Child Trafficking and Child Labour brought together all stakeholders involved in the fight against child labour to deliberate upon the tenets of the child labour law, Child Labour (prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, which needs to be amended; in terms of making rehabilitation as […]
Childhoods lost in the gold mines
Childhoods lost in the gold mines In a cramped mine, Théophile, said to be 7, fills a bucket with shards from the walls. The U.N. says as many as a million children work in the mines for as little as $2 a day. (LARRY C. PRICE / For […]
UN Special Envoy on Education agrees to the demand of Global March
April 23, 2013 Washington DC – Mr. Gordon Brown, UN Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of United Kingdom has agreed to include a major demand of Global March Against Child Labour in his agenda for the next UN General Assembly. The Chairperson of Global March, Mr. Kailash Satyarthi […]
Global March presents report “Child Labour in Cocoa Farming in Côte d’Ivoire”
18 April 2013, Washington D.C: Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, Chairperson, Global March Against Child Labour who was in Washington D.C. on the invitation of Mr. Gordon Brown, Education Envoy to UN Secretary General for series of events planned in conjunction to the IMF World Bank Development Committee, presented the latest report […]
Modern-day slavery: an explainer
What is modern-day slavery? About 150 years after most countries banned slavery – Brazil was the last to abolish its participation in the transatlantic slave trade, in 1888 – millions of men, women and children are still enslaved. Contemporary slavery takes many forms, from women forced into prostitution, to child slavery […]