End Child Slavery now

Sisters Jung and Ahok from South Sudan were kidnapped and sold as slaves in a market. After two years they were finally freed by World’s Children’s Prize Laureate James Aguer. This happened many years ago, but unfortunately not much has changed in the world when it comes to child slavery. A minimum of 5,5 million children are enslaved today, in stone quarries, brick kilns, factories, mines, sweatshops and other abusive environments. How can this be allowed to continue? It is time to turn up the heat in the fight to end child slavery! We support – and urge you to do the same – the End Child Slavery Week (ECSW), an event that will run for the first time in London, 20-26 November 2014. Spearheaded by The Global March Against Child Labour and its founder, one of the world’s foremost anti-slavery activists Kailash Satyarthi, it will be carried out together with with Anti-Slavery International, Education International (EI), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), KidsRights Foundation and Thomson Reuters Foundation and many more. Through public pressure, immediate action will be demanded from the UN, governments and business leaders, to make the eradication of child slavery a priority in national legislation, policies and programmes. ECSW 2014 will highlight the need for the abolition of child slavery eradication to be incorporated in post-2015 Development Agenda. Learn more and join the fight
here!