Child Labour
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The EI World Congress passed a number of resolutions on the elimination of child labour. They are: "Gender and HIV/AIDS" (2004). "Trafficking in Women, Girls, and Boys" (2001), "The Rights of the Child" (1998), "Children of Refugees and Asylum Seekers" (1998), "The Girl Child" (1998), "Child Labour" (1995).
The elimination of child labour requires substantial strengthening of development financial resources. EI therefore encourages its member organisations to lobby their respective governments to devote, as quickly as possible, at least 0.7% of their GNP to development assistance and a higher percentage in this amount should be dedicated to the development and improvement of quality public education. EI also encourages its members to lobby their governments for the ratification of ILO Resolution 138 (on a minimum working age) and Resolution 182 (on ending the worst forms of Child Labour). This is to ensure that adequate resources allow for an expansion of public education, including quality early childhood services, schools, transitional and special education and vocational training to achieve the goal of Education For All (EFA). In the run-up to Education For All by 2015, it is everyone's responsibility to make sure the child labourers are not forgotten.
EI also lobbies for quality teacher training and in-service development to enable teachers to meet the diverse and special needs of children, particularly the most disadvantaged, those at highest risk of becoming child labourers and those who have been child labourers.
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