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Here you can find statements from ECLT, reports from the field and news of recent publications like our Annual Report. To find out what happened in previous years look at the news archive.
World Day Against Child Labour 2011
12th June 2011
The theme for this year’s World Day Against Child Labour is hazardous work. As much agricultural work is considered hazardous, it is of particular significance when addressing child labour in tobacco growing.
Click here to read ECLT’s statement
Global March Action on Domestic Work Sector
9th June 2011
The ECLT Foundation supports the efforts of all those who seek to eliminate child labour in sectors other than agriculture. To that end, we fully back the Global March Against Child Labour in its campaign to reduce child labour in the domestic work sector, particularly its recent campaign in support of the proposed ILO Convention on the domestic work sector.
2010 Annual Report
8th June 2011
The 2010 Annual Report has been released. It contains stories about people who have benefited from our projects, as well as a summary of all ECLT’s achievements over the year.
Download the 2010 ECLT Annual Report
Sign the petition
2 September 2010
Global March has launched a campaign to demand the inclusion of child labour elimination as a global priority. Eliminating child labour is critical to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
2009 Annual Report
23 June 2010
The 2009 Annual Report has been released. For the first time it includes stories about some of the people who benefit from ECLT’s projects.
ECLT project features on BBC World
5 June 2010
Child labour in Malawi was the subject of a BBC World broadcast on Saturday 5 June 2010. The programme featured child labour in tobacco farming in Malawi and highlighted the work of ECLT.
Watch a clip of BBC World’s “Working Lives: Human Traffic”
Channel 4 documentary highlights child labour in Malawi
15 May 2010
ECLT was saddened to see Channel 4’s Unreported World which aired in the UK on 14 May 2010. The documentary showed very young children forced to work in hazardous conditions and denied their right to go to school.
Global conference steps up action to eliminate worst forms of child labour
11 May 2010
A global conference in the Hague on 10-11 May approved a roadmap to step up action to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
World Day Against Child Labour 2010
5 May 2010
The World Day Against Child Labour is on 12 June 2010. It follows a major Global Conference on Child Labour in the Netherlands in May. The World Day will call for a scale up the worldwide movement to tackle child labour.
US bill aims to eliminate child labour
30 April 2010
A US bill aims to eliminate the use of child labour in the production of goods imported to the US. ECLT is concerned that the bill may increase poverty and therefore exacerbate child labour.
New president for ECLT
15 January 2010
Antonio Abrunhosa, was elected President of the ECLT Foundation Board at the end of 2009.
