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Article

17 Dec 2012

Author:
Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education

[PDF] Child Labour & Educational Disadvantage – Breaking the Link, Building Opportunity. A Review by Gordon Brown

In this report we set out an ambitious but achievable agenda for change. The starting point is an international summit not to adopt yet more resolutions, but to agree a global road map for the elimination of child labour by 2020. That road map will have to be translated into credible national action plans setting out the policies, financial requirements and regulatory measures needed deliver results, and it will have to be backed by additional multilateral financing...[M]ost important of all, we need t...build the coalitions, partnerships and alliances that can mobilise public opinion as a force for change...Private companies – national and global – must also be held to account for employment practices that violate child rights. [Refers to Apple, Ferrero, Google, Hershey, Kraft Foods, Mars, Nestle, Samsung]