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Article

4 Apr 2013

Author:
UN Global Compact

Joint Letter Calls on Business to Help Eliminate Child Labour

Following the one-year anniversary of the launch of the Children’s Rights and Business Principles last month, Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Guy Ryder, Director-General of the International Labour Organization, and Georg Kell, Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, today issued a joint letter urging business to do more to help deliver a world fit for all children...The...letter calls on business to effectively address child labour within business operations and the value chain, as a concrete and core business contribution towards achieving this goal...At a special meeting in April in Washington, DC, the three leaders will call for a new global commitment and action through the United Nations to abolish all forms of child slavery by the end of 2015, in order to meet the education goal of the Millennium Development Goals...