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Cooperating with the private sector in child labour free zones in Africa
Stop Child Labour has published a guiding document on “Cooperating with the private sector in child labour free zones in Africa”, with practical examples and inspirational stories for all actors to combat child labour.
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Doing certification differently: an example from Uganda
Stop Child Labour is succesfully cooperating with a coffee company and local partners to ban child labour from coffee production in West Nile, Uganda.
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More than 11,000 signatures against child labour in gold mines
A total of 11,685 people have signed the ‘gold in your hands’ petition over the last few months.
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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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Multi-stakeholder meeting on child labour in leather and footwear in Agra, India (16/17 February 2017)
On 16 – 17 February 2017, The Fair Labor Association, Stop Child Labour Coalition and iMentor are organizing a multi-stakeholder meeting titled “Strengthening Children’s Rights and Decent Work in the Agra Leather and Footwear Cluster”.
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Garment brands contribute to low wages & child labour in Bangladesh
The average worker in the Bangladeshi garment industry is getting paid only one third of what is considered to be a living wage. Low wages and long working hours have been found to play a key role in parents’ decisions to take their children out of school and let them work in various jobs.
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Stop Child Labour presents Delhi Declaration
Last week, Stop Child Labour presented the Delhi Declaration to Ms. Stuti Kacker, the Chairperson of the National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) constituted by the Government of India. The Delhi Declaration was adopted during the National Conference on “Working towards the creation of Child Labour Free Zones” in August this year. During…
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Almost 10,000 children ‘Out of Work and into School’
In May 2014, Stop Child Labour started the ‘Out of Work and into School’ programme, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.
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Successful National Consultation on Child Labour Free Zones in India
In August, Stop Child Labour organized the National Consultation ‘Stepping Stones for creating Child Labour Free Zones’ in New Delhi, India.
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“New Indian Child Labour Bill allows many children to work”
ndia has a new law against child labour. Or more precisely: the old Child Labour Act of 1986 was recently amended. On July 19, 2016, the Indian Upper House (Rajya Sabha) approved the amendments.
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Stop Child Labour signs Sustainable Garment and Textile Sector Covenant
Stop Child Labour signed a Sustainable Garment and Textile Sector Covenant today, together with 55 businesses, their trade organisations, the Dutch government and several other NGOs.
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Stop Child Labour welcomes promised EU action against child labour
Stop Child Labour welcomes action promised by EU against child labour The Council of the European Union – all 28 member states together – on the 20th of June published its conclusions on child labour and called for a joint approach to tackle all forms of child labour.
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Electronics companies are doing far too little yet to eradicate child labour from gold mining
Electronics companies are not making a big enough effort to combat child labour in gold mining. This is the conclusion of a survey by SOMO commissioned by Stop Child Labour. The electronics industry is the third largest buyer of gold in the world.
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The story of Amos, Amina and Mike
Amos was born in a village near the Ugandan gold mine Rubali fifteen years ago. His mother died and in order to support his father and younger sister and brothers financially, he works in a gold mine for 12 hours every day.
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World Day Against Child Labour – focus on supply chains
This year, the focus for the World Day Against Child Labour – 12 June – is on child labour and supply chains. With 168 million children still in child labour, all supply chains, from agriculture to manufacturing, services to construction, run the risk that child labour may be present.
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Sign the petition!
More than 1 million children are working in gold mines around the world. This gold ends up in our mobile phones and other products we buy.
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Electronics companies recognise the need for sustainable mining
Stop Child Labour hosted a Round Table meeting about sustainable mining for the electronics sector on 19 April 2016 together with the GoodElectroncis Network, SOMO and Friends of the Earth / Milieudefensie.
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Come into action now or new legislation will be introduced
“I would prefer to support and facilitate, but I am not afraid to introduce new legislation.” These are the words of Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade & Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen.
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Nearly 15,000 children are working in gold mining in Uganda
Almost 15,000 children are working in small-scale and artisanal gold mining in Uganda, Africa. The majority of these children come into contact with extremely toxic mercury.
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Mitigating child labour risks in Turkish garment and cotton sector
The Working Group on Child Labour has launched a pilot project to map, identify and mitigate child labour risks in the Turkish apparel supply chain extending back to cotton farms.
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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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New ILO guidance tool for companies to eliminate child labour in supply chains
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) have launched a new resource to increase companies’ knowledge and ability to conduct business in line with international labour standards on child labour.
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Companies involved in child labour in Indian vegetable seed production
Almost 156,000 Indian children are producing vegetable seeds (tomato, hot pepper, okra), of which 50,000 are below 14 years of age.
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Gold, child labour and electronics
More than 1 million children are working in goldmines around the world. Some of this gold ends up in our mobile phones.
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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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Almost half a million Indian children produce cottonseed
Almost half a million Indian children are working to produce the cottonseed that is the basis for our garments and all the other textile products that we use. Around 200,000 of them are below 14 years of age.
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Child labour in the gold industry
Gold is one of the most expensive metals in the world and is not only used to make jewelry. The report ‘Child Mined Gold in your gadgets” from DanWatch in 2013 shows that gold is also an important material for the electronics companies.
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Child labour in Indian quarries
Child labour occurs frequently Indian quarries. Most Dutch importers of Indian granite give no information from which quarries they are sourcing their granite or say they do not know from which quarries the stone comes from.
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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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Celebrating Child Labour Free Zones
Over the last three years, in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Ghana and Morocco child labour free zones have been established and in Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso preparations have been made for the implementation of CLFZ.
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Modern slavery and child labour in Indian quarries
Modern slavery is widespread in Indian quarries. Child labour also occurs frequently. Most Dutch importers of Indian granite give no information from which quarries they are sourcing their granite or say they do not know from which quarries the stone comes from.
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Child labour in cottonseed fields of Gujarat
Every year thousands of tribal children from South Rajasthan and North Gujarat are trafficked to cottonseed plots in North Gujarat for work in the cotton seed fields, in particular to do cross-pollination by hand.
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New Report: Modern day slavery in the Indian textile industry
‘Flawed Fabrics’ – a new report by SOMO and ICN – shows that workers are still facing appalling labour conditions that amount to forced labour in the export-oriented Southern Indian textile industry.
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The Story of Shoes
There is more to leather than its attractive appearance. In many developing countries, leather production gives rise to animal suffering, environmental pollution, deforestation and child labour.
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Child labour, long hours and low wages still rife in Turkish hazelnut production
Rampant child labour, long working hours and below minimum wages have been found during an independent investigation by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) of Nestlé’s hazelnut supply chain in Turkey.
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Shoe company association works on policy against child labour
The Association for Large Retailers (ALR) in shoes is working on ‘a sector-wide ambition in the field of CSR, including the eradication of child labour’. That is one of the answers of Minister Ploumen on parliamentary questions on the report ‘Working on the Right Shoes’.