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10th Anniversary of ILO Convention 182, Worst Form OF Child Labour
 
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...

Elimination of child labor pre condition to build healthy labor markets

Élimination de travail enfantile comme condition préalable pour les marchés du travail sains
Eliminación de trabajo infantil – Condición previa para crear los mercados laborales sanos

Statement from Global March Against Child Labor representing 2000 member organizations in 100 countries including ITUC and Education International representing the interest of the child laborers and the hardest to reach children worldwide. Read More>>

A child worker's journey — from Jharkhand to Geneva

June 10, 2009: He is no slumdog millionaire. But Mohammad Manan Ansari's life also reads like a fairy tale. The 14-year-old boy from an obscure village in Jharkhand's poverty-ridden Koderma district worked in the mica mines since he was eight until rescued by child rights activists.
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Kailash Satyarthi, Chairperson, Global March Against Child Labour bestowed with the world acclaimed “Defender of Democracy Award”

New Delhi, 21 May 2009, Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA) will present the 2009 Defender of Democracy Awards to Mr. Kailash Satyarthiof India, Founder/Chair of the Global March Against Child Labor, andCh. Aitzaz Ahsanof Pakistan, Barrister-at-Law, Senior Advocate Supreme Court.
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Freedom Marchers set the Stage for Anti-Trafficking Concert

More than 8,000 advocates and supporters of the Philippines' war against human trafficking launched a freedom march last May 22, Friday, to set the stage for the kick off concert of the MTV End Exploitation and Trafficking (EXIT) Philippine campaign.
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World Leaders wake up, save the school going children from tsunami effect of financial meltdown, IMF commit to fair play with poor

Statement from Global March Against Child Labor representing 2000 member organizations in 100 countries including ITUC and Education International representing the interest of the child laborers and the hardest to reach children worldwide.
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Development Committee Press Conference - Remarks by World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick

Global March demands IMF Combine Fiscal Stimulus with Broader Social Dialogue

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Global Action Week 2009: The Big Read

Devli, former child bonded labourer shares stage with Queen Rania
Devli is one among many girls who has been rescued in India by Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Global March partner in India). They have tremendous leadership potentials, which is demonstrated through various platforms. She came from a family of intergenerational debt bonded slaves, and she was rescued with her parents and grandparents from a stone quarry in North India.
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