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In Indonesia, stakeholders are stepping up to safeguard children’s well-being and future, advancing labour practices through agricultural labour guidelines.
The ECLT Foundation participated in the UN Global Compact (UNGC) Leaders Summit and Forward Faster Acceleration Day, held in New York in September 2024. Read more about our experience in these insightful events.
Child labour remains a pervasive issue in different regions, particularly in rural areas. The ECLT Foundation has been at the forefront of combating this complex problem through various on-the-ground interventions
The Partnership for Action Against Child Labour in Agriculture (PAACLA) Indonesia and our implementing partner, JARAK, collaborated with various parties to organize the World Day Against Child Labour commemoration at the national and local levels on June 12, 2024.
Read the Outcome Document from the Child Labour Indaba, which highlights the background, the root causes of child labour, and the sectorial commitments from General Agriculture, Tobacco, Mining, Commercial, and Domestic work sectors.
The Child Labour Indaba brought together National Employment Councils (NECs), civil society, trade unions, independent constitutional institutions, international organisations, with a specific focus on generating actionable solutions to combat child labour in different economic sectors in Zimbabwe.
The due diligence directive will set obligations for large companies regarding actual and potential adverse impacts on human rights and the environment, with respect to their own operations, those of their subsidiaries, and those carried out by their business partners.
Partnership for Action Against Child Labour in Agriculture (PAACLA) has facilitated the development of partnerships at the local level in the form of PAACLA Forums in several regions of Indonesia.
Re-enrolling child labourers into formal education can be challenging. Early exclusion from school reinforces the decision to engage children in hazardous labour, rather than enrolling them in school and encouraging their regular attendance.
