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| South Asia Regional Congress on Child Labour and Education |
World Day Against Child Labour : Education the Right Response to Child Labour
12 June 2008 |
- One in seven children is a child labourer: that's nearly 14 per cent of the children in the age group 5-14 years.
- One in five children do not go to school – this is nearly 18 per cent of the children in the age group (primary school).
- Most of them (57 percent) were girls! Huge numbers of them work as child labourers.
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Child labour is a critical obstacle in the path of children's development and society's sustainable development. Children who must spend the most important stage of their lives striving merely to survive are denied the opportunity to develop to their full potential. One in every eight children 5 to 17 years old - 179 million - work in the worst forms of child labour....
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| 208 children see the light of freedom in one day |
| The Minister of Labour joins secret raids with BBA activists and former child labourers |
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7th May 2008: In one of the largest rescue operations in the country, 208 child labourers were rescued from child/ bonded labour from more than 120 establishments. In an unprecedented move, the Labour Minister of Jharkhand , instead of passing the order from the table as usual, joined in the raids with BBA activists. Mr. Bhanu Pratap Sahi Created history as for the first time, a minister screened the restaurants, teashops and garages on the streets for 4 hours in the state capital Ranchi and rescued 185 child labourers....
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| Thousands of Teachers Protest For Right to Education |
6th May 2008 :It was for first time Teacher Unions were on the streets to appose large scale appointment of Para-Teachers and to also demand enactment of law for universal free compulsory and quality education for all children. AIFTO with its strong 30 lakh membership in India has been closely associated with Right to Education campaign in India...
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Bachpan
Bachao Andolan (BBA) today symbolizes the largest grassroots movement
against child servitude. As an
initiator of rescuing slave children
(direct action) from the remotest
villages in India on one hand
and the organiser/leader of Global
March Against Child Labour on
the other, BBA has a legacy of
crusade aganist child labour since 1980. Founded as a group of few individuals,
BBA has emerged as an organization
of thousands of individual supporters
under the banner of ‘Bachpan
Bachao Andolan’ as well as
network of over 780 NGOs, Trade
Unions, Human Rights Organisation
etc. dedicated towards the total
elimination of child labour and
quality education for all in India.
Vision
To create a child friendly society, where all children are free from exploitation and receive free and quality education.
Mission
To identify, liberate, rehabilitate and educate children in servitude through direct intervention, child and community participation, coalition building, consumer action, promoting ethical trade practices and mass mobilisation. |
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| Devender - From Victim to Changemaker |
Once again Devender has proven his dynamic leadership towards the cause of Delhi 's Rag Pickers
Devender and his organisation Bal Vikas Dhara (Child Development Stream) have launched a foot-march along with 50 marchers across the capital of India demanding rights and dignity to the rag pickers...
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| Freedom of 13 children from Forced Beggary |
20 February 2008, New Delhi- Motibagh flyover is near Chanakya-Puri the straight road that leads to President's house and the one which has all Embassies at the right side...
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| Regional Consultation 2007 |
Rescue, Recover, Rehabilitate- The 3 R's to ensure safe childhood to all child labourers
New Delhi, 27 September 2007: “Every child has the right to good quality education; every child has the right to play” resonated Amarlal’s words in the SCOPE complex..
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