Two Days Consultation on Child Labour: Issues and Strategy

Dear friends,

Child labour is an undesirable practice which persists in various forms all over the globe. An estimated 158 million children aged 5-14 are engaged in child labour - one in six children in the world. They are engaged in hazardous situations or conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or working with dangerous machinery. They are everywhere but invisible, toiling as domestic servants in homes, labouring behind the walls of workshops and hidden from view in plantations.

Based on the recommendations of Gurupadaswamy Committee, the Child Labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act was enacted in 1986. The Act prohibits employment of children in certain specified hazardous occupations and processes and regulates the working conditions in others.  Subsequently a National Policy on Child Labour was formulated in 1987. The Policy seeks to adopt a gradual & sequential approach with a focus on rehabilitation of children working in hazardous occupations & processes in the first instance.
CASP-Plan Delhi is a partnership between CASP and Plan working in the area
>of child rights for the last several years.
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>It started the Child Labour project in Delhi in October 2007 with an aim to
>improve the quality of life of working children through multiple programmes
>and strategies. The core part of the programme is advocating for Child
>rights with other stakeholders through regular workshops and meetings.
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>To delve deeper into the issue of child labour and arrive at innovative
>joint strategies, CASP-Plan Delhi is organising a two day consultation
>from 7 to 8 January 2010 at India International Center, Lodi Road, New Delhi.
>The main objectives of the workshop are to:
Find the cause of child labour in the context of Globalisation.
Provide a platform to the organisations to share their strategies and best practices.
Find the mechanism to share each other's resources to ensure child rights.
Advocate child rights issue with the government,media and other stakeholders.
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We extend you an invitation to participate in the consultation and share your organisational as well as personal experiences with all of us.

We are sure that you would join us for the consultation especially when it has been realised that multi-stakeholder joint strategies and actions can only lead to abolition of child labour.