Dear members, partners and supporters, Greetings from the locked-down New Delhi! Hope you all are keeping safe and are trying to follow all precautionary measures outlined by the World Health Organisation and your Health Ministry, amidst the COVID-19 crisis. These are indeed unfathomable and very challenging times for all of […]
10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Child Labour
In 2020 we are continuing to work towards elimination of child labour and promoting decent work for the youth. As a strong supporter of our work, as you may already know about this issue, nevertheless, let’s empower ourselves with more knowledge and join the fight with a stronger determination to […]
Global March calls for multi-stakeholder and bottom-up cooperation to end child labour in supply chains at the global conference, The Netherlands
On January 27- 28, 2020, in Leiden, The Netherlands, the Dutch Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment organised a global conference called “Taking Next Steps: Ending Child Labour by 2025” on ending child labour in supply chains, in collaboration with Global March Against Child […]
Op-ed: Combating Child Labor in Global Supply Chains
Op-ed by KAILASH SATYARTHI for Project Syndicate According to the OECD, 28-43% of the child labor that is estimated to contribute to exports does so indirectly, through preceding links in supply chains (such as extraction of raw materials or agriculture). But with a holistic approach that engages governments, corporations, and […]
2019 in Review
Dear Members and Supporters, As we bid goodbye to 2019 and enter into the new year of 2020, we are not only celebrating our achievements but are also keeping the grave challenge of ending child labour by 2025 in sight.Warm season’s greetings from Global March Against Child Labour! 2019 was […]
Ferrero: Stop child labour!
To: Ferrero International S.A., its Executive Director, Giovanni Ferrero, and CEO, Lapo Civiletti; and Ferrero Hazelnut Company and Marco Gonçalves, CEO of Ferrero Hazelnut Company Petition Our investigation published in the Guardian reveals that Nutella, Kinder Bueno and Ferrero-Rocher contain hazelnuts that may have been picked by children, exploited in […]
Ferrero Rocher chocolates may be tainted by child labour
The hazelnuts inside millions of Ferrero Rocher chocolates sold across Europe this Christmas may have been picked by children working in farms in Turkey, according to human rights campaigners. Ferrero, the world’s third largest chocolate company, is struggling to address concerns that multiple farms where it sources hazelnuts for its chocolate […]
OPINION: Children must not fall off the 2030 Development Agenda
by Kailash Satyarthi | @k_satyarthi | Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation While in the last decades the world has made progress on many fronts, millions of children are still far from freedom, safety and education Kailash Satyarthi is Nobel Peace Laureate. I had kept a vacant chair in the front row […]
Protecting children is the key to sustainability
By Kailash Satyarthi On September 24-25, world leaders will attend a United Nations summit in New York to review progress toward the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This will be the first UN summit on the SDGs since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015. Since then, we have collectively made progress toward a more peaceful, […]
Child Labour’s New Cheerleaders: Authoritarian Governments in Latin America
Opinion article by Timothy Ryan At a rare forum in Costa Rica bringing together more than a dozen organizations from Central and South America at a critical moment in the struggle against child labour in the hemisphere, the message was clear: The surge in authoritarian governments across the region is […]