The Power of Partnerships against Child Labour
The decision made by the ILO Governing Body will have significant impact on children in communities in all the 124 countries around the world where tobacco is grown.
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Keeping Children in School in Uganda
Through our REALISE project in Uganda, the ECLT Foundation worked to ensure that families could send their children to school and not to work in the fields. From 2013 to 2017, ECLT worked with our implementing partners, UWESO, to reach children from over 18,000 households in the Hoima district.
ILO strategy to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector
The International Labour Office of the ILO has released its “integrated ILO strategy to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector,” which will be presented at the Governing Body session in March 2018.
Policy Brief Malawi: 15 years of impact against child labour
Malawi is the country where the ECLT Foundation started our project work on the ground, working to fight the root causes of child labour in rural communities where tobacco is grown.
Policy Brief : Transitioning away from tobacco in Kyrgyzstan
Over 13 years, the ECLT Foundation has removed more than 10,300 children from child labour and financially supported 4,900 parents in rural communities where tobacco is grown in Kyrgyzstan.
Promoting Human Rights in Rural Communities
Seventy years after its adoption, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains the milestone document laying out the inalienable rights of every human being.
Facts on Modern Slavery: a global problem
With over 40 million men, women and children in modern slavery according to the most recent ILO estimates, slavery is not a thing of the past. There are slaves working on every continent, in every country, in all types of industries and even in people’s homes.
13 Years of IMPACT: Working against Child Labour in Kyrgyzstan
Since January 2005, Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco (ECLT) Foundation together with its partner, the Alliance for the Protection of Children’s Rights (APCR), has reached over 40,000 people through five projects in the Nookat and Alabuka Districts of southwestern Kyrgyzstan to address child labour in rural communities where tobacco is grown.
Exploring Effective Remedy to Rights Violations at UN Forum
More than 2,000 leaders from business, government and civil society will join forces to find solutions to the challenges faces in integrating human rights throughout business practices from 27 to 29 November at the UN Forum for Business and Human Rights in Geneva.