Global March Against Child Labour - From Exploitation to Education
Not Made By Children
An initiative to end child labour in the garment-manufacturing supply chain in India
‘Not Made by Children’ programme is aimed towards strengthening the efforts against child labour and trafficking for forced labour through improvement of inspection and monitoring processes in garment supply chains, providing comprehensive remediation of victims and promoting decent work for adults.
South Asian March Against Child Trafficking with more than 120 core marchers including, 12-year-old Devli from Rajasthan, 13-year-old Rakesh from Bihar, 11-year-old Abdul from Nepal, 17-year-old Nagma from Bangladesh has reached Delhi covering more than 4,000 km..
The use of child labour and unfair labour practice in the sporting goods industry has been addressed by some NGOs and media in the past. Because of these efforts, in 1996, FIFA, the organizing body of international football matches developed a set of regulations..
"Quality Education for All - Make It Happen Now!" A clear message has been sent across the world to end the worldwide crisis on education. Today, 103.5 million children are not attending school, unable to learn to their full potential.
Right from the drafting of ILO Convention 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, the Global March has been in the forefront of generating the mass support to make it the most effective tool in inspiring the worldwide actions to end child labour and its worst forms.
The Global March Against Child Labour is a movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful to the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.
