• The Impact of South Asian March against Child Trafficking

  The first world’s largest campaign against child trafficking for forced labour was started by Global March Against Child Labour with its Partners in the form of South Asian March Against Child Trafficking.

  The direct impact of the month long Anti trafficking march is that on 26th April 2007 UN announced the Global Initiative to fight Human Trafficking. On the launch one of our activist Mr Bhuwan Ribhu was also invited to speak on this issue. 

  This is the first step towards the success of our core marchers and all the NGO’s , civil societies, Teachers unions  trade unions and UN agencies who joined hands with us and the leaders who walked with us during the 5000km long South Asian March Against Child Labour.

• ILO Convention 182, Worst Forms of Child Labour has been ratified by 165 countries. This is the fastest ratified convention ever. This is due to Glabal March vibrant movement to brings together NGOs, trade unions, and committed individuals from over 140 countries for the cause of making the world free of child labour and achieving education for all.

• The Global March has Empowered child labourers to become leaders in the struggle against child exploitation and demonstrate the power that children can have in shaping the future of our world.

• Another milestone was when we joined forces with Education International, Oxfam International, and Action Aid to launch a new Global Campaign for Education and push for national and international action to provide quality education to all children as a matter of urgency.

• The Global March successfully launched a campaign against child labour in sports goods industry. The World Cup Campaign 2002 encouraged Trade Unions, ILO and other stakeholders to take this campaign further.

• “Fair Chocolate For the World” organized by the Global March brought a new perception on child rights among the civil society with regard to chocolate industry. The chairperson of the Global March is in the Board of the Cocoa Foundation with chocolate tycoons and this foundation is trying to resolve the problem of slavery in general and child slavery in particular in the cocoa beans production in Africa.

• The Northern Advocacy Office of the Global March Against Child Labour, established at Washington D.C. has established good dialogue with the immigrant communities and has been sensitizing them on the issue of child labour.

The Global March through its Northern Advocacy Office intervened in the US policy domain and lobbied for maintaining at least the existing levels of funding support for child labour elimination when the US government contemplated measures to reduce its funds.

• The need for developing a triangular paradigm of development to effectively address the issue of child labour was discussed in a High level round table organised by the Global March jointly with ILO, UNESCO and the World Bank. A commitment has been made by these agencies to form a working group to speed up this process of putting in action the triangular paradigm.

• The Global March is one of the three civil society representatives in the High Level Group review meeting of the Dakar Framework of Action on EFA. The Global March successfully lobbied for policy changes to include elimination of child labour as a key factor for achieving EFA. This was the first time elimination of child labour was included in the policy document.