SOCIAL PROTECTION: COMBAT CHILD LABOUR!
To
commemorate the World Day Against Child Labour 2014, NCPCR, UNICEF and
ILO organized four Zonal Round Table Conferences across India that will
culminate in a National Meeting on 12 June 2014 in
New Delhi.
Commemorated on June 12 each year, the World Day Against Child Labour
calls the world’s attention to the plight of millions of children, girls
and boys around the world who are exploited by child labour. Every
child has the right to grow up in a safe and nurturing
environment protected from harm and given every opportunity to realize
his or her potential- a reality yet to be fulfilled for many children.
The theme for 2014 is extend social protection: combat child labour. It
draws attention to the role of social protection in keeping children out
of child labour and removing them from it. Social protection is both a
human right and makes sound economic and social sense. Social protection
enables access to education, health care
and nutrition and plays a critical role in the fight against child
labour.
In India, the NCPCR, UNICEF and
ILO have been collaborating since 2009 to jointly commemorate the day.
For 2014, four zonal round table conference were convened across North,
South, East and West regions of India which
would culminate in a National Convention on 12 June 2014 in New Delhi.
The Zonal Round Table Conferences anchored on the Social Protection
Floor and its social security guarantees, one of which refers to income
security for children. The Zonal Conferences reviewed the progress made
during the past year on the elimination of child
labour and came up with conclusions
and recommendations on the areas to improve and extend social
protection. Awareness and access to social security schemes and a life
cycle approach where schemes are sustainable and
are developed in a continuum for the child, adolescent, youth, adult
and old age with focus on vulnerable sections and people with
disabilities was discussed. The deliberations echoed the recommendations
of the World Report on Social Protection released by
ILO on 3 June 2014.
The National Convention would focus on a panel discussion of experts
from international organizations and Government to dilate the need for
social protection as a key part of national strategies to tackle child
labour in addition to deliberating on the recommendations
from the zonal conferences.
The participants would include National and State
Commissions for Protection of Child Rights; Central and State
Departments of Labour, WCD and Education; Employers Organizations;
Workers Organizations; Civil Society
/ NGOs; Academia, UNICEF and ILO.
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Sonia Sarkar
Communication Officer (Media) , UNICEF India
Tel (+91) 9810170289,9891861445;
Email: ssarkar@unicef.org
United Nations Children’s Fund
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Sent: 12 June, 2014 09:01
To: sneha.chowrasia@gmail.com
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