The Global March Against Child Labour was established in 1998 to plan and coordinate a worldwide social mobilisation effort involving thousands of organisations and people in all four corners of the globe to raise awareness of child labour and to support the adoption of ILO Convention No. 182 on worst forms of child labour in Geneva in 1999.
It is a global network of trade union, teachers’ and civil society organisations that work together towards the shared development goals of eliminating and preventing all forms of child labour and ensuring access by all children to free, meaningful and good quality public education. Global March mobilises and supports its constituents to contribute to local, national, regional and global efforts and support for a range of international instruments relating to the protection and promotion of children’s rights especially related to child labour, hard-to-reach and out of school children, trafficking of children for forced labour and engages with UN and international and inter-governmental agencies on the same.
Global March movement also runs the Global Campaign for Education, a worldwide movement aimed at providing education for all.
Web site in includes:
- details of campaign issues
- full-text of statistical report "Out of the Shadows – report on worst forms of child labour"
- full-text of Child Labour News Service
- press releases
- status reports by country on the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its two Optional Protocols