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IPS NEWS: Former Child Labourer Says Free Quality Education Key to Ending Child Labour
By Fawzia Moodley. Durban, May 24 2022 (IPS) - Lucky Agbavor sleeps on a mattress in a church in Accra, Ghana sells juice to earn an income, and has been a child labourer since he was four. Now he has made an impact on the international stage when he participated in...
IPS NEWS: Youth Survivors, Activists Will Hold Governments Accountable to Call to Action on Ending Child Labour
By Lyse Comins. DURBAN, May 20 2022 (IPS) - Governments of the world must focus on providing quality free education and prosecuting corrupt officials and people who siphon state and donor funds as crucial steps towards taking decisive action to fight child labour...
IPS NEWS: It’s Time To Globalise Compassion, Says Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi
By Fawzia Moodley. "I have been talking to leaders of rich countries to address the problem of post-pandemic economic meltdown. We have to work for social protection for marginalised people in low-income countries and focus on children, education, health, and...
IPS NEWS: Youths’ Strident Voices Demand an End to Child Labour
By Fawzia Moodley. Durban, May 15 2022 (IPS) - Children’s voices took centre stage at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, which kicked off in Durban, South Africa, on May 15, 2022. Their voices resonated with the saying: “Nothing about us...
SABC NEWS: Child Labour persistence is as a result of discriminatory world order: Kailash Satyarthi
Article and image by Sipho Kekana Children Rights Advocate and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Kailash Satyarthi has lambasted the rich nations of the world, saying their discriminatory attitude towards poor nations was at the heart of the persistence of the problem,...
ALLAFRICA.COM: Call to Freedom for Millions of Children Trapped in Child Labour As Global Conference Comes to Africa
Child rights experts at Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation reiterate that tolerance and normalisation of working children, many of whom work in hazardous conditions and circumstances, and apathy has stalled progress towards the elimination of child labour.
