Category: Budhpura India
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Cooperating with the private sector in Child Labour Free Zones in India
Efforts to reduce and remediate child labour require attention from multiple angles. One key element is the role of the private sector.
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Kishan is going to school!
Kishan is one of the youngest children in his classroom. He is six years old and he has recently started school. His sister Kali (aged 12) is sitting next to him. She used to look after him while working in stone processing as well.
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Natural stone: Public Procurement and Human Rights
Sandstone and granite are used for paving public spaces like streets and squares and for tiling walls and floors in public buildings like office blocks, train stations and airports.
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Annual Report ‘Out of Work and into School’ – year 2
Supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, within this programme we are strengthening and expanding child labour free zones, where possible and relevant with active participation of CSR initiatives and companies.
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Child labour in natural stone: working on solutions together
The Indian sandstone cobble industry is tarnished with stories of poor working conditions, bad labour practices and endemic child labour. While these issues do exist, they are not the whole story.
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First annual report ‘Out of Work and into School’ project
Stop Child Labour (SCL) started the Out of Work and into School project in May 2014, as part of our broader programme to eliminate and remediate all forms of child labour linked to the right to education for all children.
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Companies involved
Bram Callewier from the Belgian wholesale ‘Beltrami Natural Stone’ writes in his blog about the company’s efforts to combat child labor in the stone sector in India. Together with the Indian NGO Manjari Beltrami is working on the creation and expansion of child labour free zones.
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Kick-off new SCL programme – report available now
With this programme, Stop Child Labour aims to strengthen and expand child labour free zones (CLFZ) world-wide, where possible and relevant with active participation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives and companies.