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  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 October 2017

    Nobel Laureate leads historic march across India to keep children safe

    When Kailash Satyarthi commits there is no way of stopping him, which was evident as millions followed his call to end the sexual abuse and trafficking of children in what was the country’s biggest march.

    Nobel Laureate leads historic march across India to keep children safe
  2. Trade union rights are human rights 12 June 2017

    Education unions work to ensure a child’s place is in school, not at work

    This year’s World Day Against Child Labour has focused efforts on the fallout of conflicts and disasters, and how they are catalysts for pushing millions of children into labour or into the hands of traffickers.

    Education unions work to ensure a child’s place is in school, not at work
  3. Equity and inclusion 11 June 2017

    Education International - working globally to end child labour

    EI helps education unions implement projects to fight child labour in 13 countries: in Albania, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ivory Coast, India, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Nicaragua, Uganda, in Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe. Most of these projects aim at developing child labour free zones.

    Education International - working globally to end child labour
  4. Fighting the commercialisation of education 4 May 2017

    From the classroom to the world and back: educators take on a global perspective

    In a search for solutions to some of the biggest challenges facing people around the world, the second day of the Unite Conference in Rotterdam looked to build bridges from schools to politicians to policies.

    From the classroom to the world and back: educators take on a global perspective
  5. Equity and inclusion 3 April 2017

    Education unionists’ unwavering commitment to fight child labour globally

    Education International has reiterated its support for sustainable initiatives to eradicate child labour worldwide, and welcomed the ratification by the Indian government of two international conventions making child labour illegal.

    Education unionists’ unwavering commitment to fight child labour globally
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    Ending child labour - a resource manual for teachers and education unions

    19 June 2014

    Child labour remains a human rights scourge more than a decade into the 21st century, affecting 168 million children worldwide by the best estimates. It denies millions of children their basic rights to education and childhood, permanently scarring their lives and their future as productive adults and citizens, those of...

    Ending child labour - a resource manual for teachers and education unions
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  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4

    Child labour and Education for all

    A resource guide for trade unions and a call against child labour and for education for all

    16 October 2013

    The effective elimination of all forms of child labour is a key objective of the international trade union movement. Universal access to free, quality, compulsory, basic education is the foundation stone to achieve this goal. ILO Convention 138 makes clear the linkages between the elimination of child labour and access...

    Child labour and Education for all
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  8. Equity and inclusion 4 June 2010

    World Day Against Child Labour: Join the fight

    A new EI publication called Go for the Goal: End Child Labour is being launched on 12 June to mark the World Day Against Child Labour.

    World Day Against Child Labour: Join the fight