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Global March Against Child Labour - From Exploitation to Education
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Why girls are still held back?
There are, however, many barriers to girls’ access to school. These unequal gender relations propel a vicious cycle of underinvestment in girls from generation to generation, starting at the earliest stages of their lives and continuing throughout their life cycles. Today, over two-thirds of the world’s 860 million illiterates are women... Read More>> |
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- 16-18th December -Campaigners for education are converging on the eighth High Level Group meeting on Education for All in Oslo 16th – 18th December. Government ministers, UN agencies, private sector and civil society use this annual meeting to discuss the progress and future steps to achieving education for all.
- 18th November 2008 in Barcelona, Spain- Global March against Child Labour received the 25thInternational Alfonso Comín Award. For the efforts to end child labour, condemning systems that require children to work, both at the global, national and regional levels.
- November 15th to 28th 2008 since 2004, Marche Mondiale France organises various events around the 20th of November. With the collaboration of other ONGs like Amnesty International, Handicap International, UNICEF, and other National Associations, activities are planned from November 15th to 28th. Most of them will take place this year in a Cultural Center in Toulouse : Centre Alban Minville where an exhibition of charts presenting all aspects associated to child labour is open every day
- 25th September 2008: World Leaders, FIFA Launch "Class Of 2015: Education For All", $4.5 B Pledged launched a new effort to build the political will to achieve education goals and remind world leaders of their promise that every child will get the opportunity of an education by 2015. A remarkable line up of supportive governments, faith groups, NGOs, sports, private sector organizations and education advocates registered their commitment to action on education, announcing pledges of $4.5 billion towards the achievement of education for all, over the next three years-two-thirds of this for basic education. When delivered, this money will be enough to educate 15 million children, including those struggling to stay in school as well as new entrants.
- 16-18th September 2008, Global March Pan European Maghreb Conference- The meeting brought together representatives of 22 organisations from 16 countries across the region and the following 7 additional countries regrettably could not be represented due to illness or other unforeseen circumstances affecting their representatives the participants of the pan-regional conference of the Global March Against Child Labour meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 16 to 18 September 2008, hereby establish a Pan-European and Maghreb Regional Organisation (GM-PEMRO) of the Global March, including the 51 states of the ILO’s European Region and the three Maghreb states.
- 12th June 2008, World Day Against Child Labour Education the Right Response to Child Labour the activities were planned in Latin America, South America, Africa, Europe and South Asia which resulted in mass awareness and major changes in policies at regional level
- Latin American- Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a decree that widens the scope of what can be classified as child labor in the country, including domestic work in the same category as slavery, sexual exploitation and drug trafficking. The president said the decree provided government inspectors with instruments to punish slavery.
- Colombia - A series of activities were conducted and reported by Global March National Coordinator Miriam Ines Gomez Gonzalez, Director of Mundo Mejor Foundacion. These activities were reported from the municipality of Geneva-Valle del
- Washington, D. C. - The International Labor Organization (ILO), the International Centre on Child Labor and Education (ICCLE) and the Education For All-Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI) organized a panel discussion on Education: The right response to child labor
- New Delhi: South Asian South Asia Congress on Child Labour and Education. Shri. Arjun Singh, Honorable Minister of Human Resource Development made the historic announcement that “The Right to Education Act will be tabled in the next session of the Parliament.” This high profile South Asia Congress was attended by 200 delegates from Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and India, including former child laborers, children affected by conflict, out-of-school children, children of marginalized and disadvantaged communities, country representatives of international organizations, UN bodies and several leading NGO leaders, eminent leaders from the media and academicians.
- Moscow, 19-20 May 2008-, Pan-European and Euro-Mediterranean Regional Consultation- The International Conference convened jointly by the Global March Against Child Labour and its partners - the New Perspectives Foundations, its Focal Point for Eastern Europe and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR) - with active participation of the ILO Sub-regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia - has completed its work. There was a broad and constructive discussion on child labour problems, the necessity to fight this problem and measures to be taken to abolish child labour.
- 11th April 2008 , Peace for Children and Children For Peace – For the First time 100s of children from India and Tibet joined hands on the street of the capital to demand protection for the rights of children in Tibet. Children from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh etc marched in the streets carrying the plank cards with the specific demands- "Peace for Children and Children for peace", "Ensure free and quality education for all children in Tibet", "Restore rights freedom dignity and education of Tibetan children".
- 20-26th April 2008 - More than 7.5 million children, adults, teachers and campaigners took part in the Global Campaign for Education’s “World’s Biggest Lesson”. The world record for the largest simultaneous lesson in history has been broken already – and the numbers are still coming in. The World’s Biggest Lesson focused on providing a quality basic education to everyone especially the 72 million children and 774 million adults who are currently missing out. All over the world Politicians and Ministers went back to school, were taught the lesson by children before being asked what they planned to do to make sure everyone gets a quality education.
- 23rd April 2008 - Anti-trafficking movement hails landmark conviction by Visayan Forum Foundation Inc. (VFFI), Global March International Council Member- A multi-sectoral network against trafficking in the Philippines led by Visayan Forum Foundation Inc. (VFFI) hails a landmark verdict handed down by a local judge in Batangas City last June 30 against a female trafficker who was sentenced serve life imprisonment and pay two million pesos for violating the anti-trafficking law.
- ILO Convention 182, Worst Forms of Child Labour has been ratified by 169 countries. This is the fastest ratified convention ever. This is due to Glabal March vibrant movement to bring 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.
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