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Child Slavery

The fight to end slavery today

Hazardous working conditions and long hours is an everyday reality for 14 percent of the world’s children. Using children for cheap labor is a common practice in many countries. Some of these children have never attended school or dropped out after a few years, and many are forced to work in the sex industry.
Believing that every child has the right to education and playtime, thousands of people from every corner of the world marched together to say no to child labor in 1998 under the banner of “Global March Against Child Labour”. The international community responded by drafting the International Labor Organization Convection against the worst forms of child labor. From these efforts, the network of organizations under the umbrella of Global March Against Child Labour was born.Global March works worldwide to promote every child’s right to meaningful education and freedom from exploitation and hazardous labor. Through questioning, attacking and challenging the systems in place that compel children to work, it advocates for policy change at local, national and global levels.

July 2007 marks the midway point for the Millennium Development Goals, the set of eight goals that the United Nations hopes to achieve by 2015. Global March is now asking people to sign to the "Keep Your Promises" petition. This campaign reminds governments of their commitments to keep children out of hazardous labor environments, provide universal education and promote gender parity.

"All children in the world must enjoy fullest of their childhood, they have to be in schools, they have to be in playground, they have to be in mother’s place and be very happy and smiling children, caring and loving for each other. The children must not be trapped into slavery, the children must not be put to wars, children should not be the victims of the adult created sins and problems, children have to enjoy their childhood; that is the most important"
Global March works worldwide to promote every child’s right to meaningful education and freedom from exploitation and hazardous labor.



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"What concrete steps can we take to make sure that everyone has a decent education and that people, wherever they are born, have greater opportunity to contribute to the world?" Bill Joy