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Facts on Modern Slavery: a global problem
With over 40 million men, women and children in modern slavery according to the most recent ILO estimates, slavery is not a thing of the past. There are slaves working on every continent, in every country, in all types of industries and even in people’s homes.
13 Years of IMPACT: Working against Child Labour 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.
Exploring Effective Remedy to Rights Violations at UN Forum
More than 2,000 leaders from business, government and civil society will join forces to find solutions to the challenges faces in integrating human rights throughout business practices from 27 to 29 November at the UN Forum for Business and Human Rights in Geneva.
Ensuring rights and standards on farms
On 15th November 2017, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published an article highlighting the Sustainable Tobacco Program (STP), an industry-wide standard which, among other things, prohibits all children under 18 from handling green tobacco on farms.
#KidsTakeOver today and everyday
Twenty eight years after the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), there are still 152 million children trapped in child labour according to the latest ILO statistics.
ECLT Welcomes New Director, David Hammond
The ECLT Foundation is pleased to announce that David Hammond has joined the Foundation as the new Executive Director as of October 2017.
Child labourers call for promotion of decent work and skills training
Child labourers are calling for support “to better address family poverty to ensure that their parents and caregivers have access to decent work, good livelihoods, services, and assistance,” according to the “Time to Talk” study, a global consultation of over 1,800 children from 36 countries that are currently or were previously involved in child labour.
ILO to develop strategy to address decent work in tobacco
The International Labour Organization (ILO) Governing Body has concluded the discussion regarding the collaboration between the organisation and the tobacco industry, calling on the Director-General to develop “an integrated ILO strategy to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector” while “taking into account all views expressed in the current session.”