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  • 20.11.2018

    Championing children's rights on World Children's Day

    The world has an estimated 2.2 billion children. Each of them have the right to grow up safely, attend school, and reach their full potential. World Children's Day marks the anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which spells out these rights. It is the most widely accepted of any international convention.

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  • 15.11.2018

    Child Labour at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights

    The upcoming UN Forum on Business and Human Rights brings together over 2,000 participants to discuss challenges and solutions for how business can fully ensure that human rights are respected in all of their activities.

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  • 08.11.2018

    ILO reaches compromise to collaborate against child labour

    ECLT welcomes the ILO Governing Body’s decision regarding collaboration to address decent work deficits and child labour in tobacco growing, which firmly keeps children and families at the forefront of this complex matter.

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  • 08.11.2018

    No More Long Walks to school for Teachers in Malawi

    Teachers now enjoy improved working conditions in Mankhamba, Malawi, with a new, secure staff room to store books and have meetings, made possible through ECLT's CLEAR II Project. This supports the village to recruit more teachers to the primary school, which serves over 350 children.

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  • 02.11.2018

    A Committed Partnership to End Child Labour in Indonesia

    In October 2018, the first meeting of the ‘Partnership in Action Against Child Labour in Agriculture’ (PAACLA), was held, bringing together relevant national and local stakeholders against child labour. The meeting was hosted by the Indonesian State Ministry of National Development Planning (BAPPENAS) and supported by ECLT and partners.

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  • 05.10.2018

    USDOL Confirms the Need for Commitment and Collaboration to End Child Labour

    The new USDOL report outlines effective, collaborative approaches which have contributed to the removal of 94 million children from labour in the last two decades. Global estimates and data enable us to understand the full scope of child labour, the ‘vulnerabilites’ for prevention and to evaluate which solutions provide the most impact.

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  • 27.09.2018

    Commitment to End Child Labour in Malawi

    In Malawi, the ECLT Foundation has carried out a number of projects including building classrooms, renovating and constructing bridges, setting up Village Savings and Loan Associations, providing school feeding programmes and vocational training. These projects have had significant impact and have contributed to the removal of over 19,000 children from child labour since 2014 alone.

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  • 07.09.2018

    Model Farm Schools: Decent Work for Youth in Tanzania

    In a sector associated with toil, sweat, uncertainty, unsafe work and low returns, much of the younger generation (aged 15-17) would rather be unemployed than work in agriculture. To attract more young people, agriculture needs to clean up this image. The ECLT Foundation’s Model Farm Schools in Tanzania are an example of how this trend can be reversed and provide decent work opportunities for young people.

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