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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.
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.
Over 1 billion people work in agriculture around the world – just under a third of global employment. Realities faced by millions of farmers depend on global markets that are out of their control. What happens to smallholder farmers when markets shift? In this mini-documentary, the ECLT Foundation took a look at the example of tobacco farming in Kyrgyzstan where it has been working for over a decade.
The following statement was published by the Malawi Congress of Trade Unions to the ILO Governing body in advance of the vote regarding cooperation with the tobacco industry in the pursuit of the Organization’s social mandate.
The Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA) and the National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM) have released an open letter to the ILO Governing Body and in joint response to the recently published letter from TOAWUM.The Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA) and the National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi (NASFAM) have released an open letter to the ILO Governing Body
The ECLT Foundation welcomes the recent report by Human Rights Watch, The Harvest is in my Blood, highlighting concerns of child labour in tobacco growing in Indonesia.
The “Quality Education and Skills Development: A Sustainable Way of Eliminating Child Labour in Agriculture” conference was the official launch of the Hoima District Action Plan on Child Labour, a first of its kind not only in Uganda, but throughout the sub-Saharan region, outlining critical inter-sectoral commitments and actions needed at the district level to effectively address the root causes of child labour under the Ugandan National Action Plan to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour.
