Ensuring a Safe Future for Every Child: Harnessing the Power of Collaborative Engagement and Child Participation for a World Free of Child Labour

Speaker 1 – The first speaker will discuss the importance of a multistakeholder platform like SER, where the government, private sector, and NGOs can promote a human rights and child rights-based approach within the international supply chain, drawing on examples from different covenants that have effectively addressed child labour.

Speaker 2 – The second speaker will initiate the discussion, reflecting on the collaboration with various stakeholders in the Southeast Asia Region to ensure the meaningful participation of children in decision-making processes (for eg. ASEAN roadmap on worst form of child labour).

Speaker 3 - The speaker will highlight the intersection between the extraction of raw minerals and child labor. With a global lens, including case studies from India and Madagascar, the speaker will discuss the lack of sustainable practices in the supply of raw minerals that can endanger children's rights and share the efforts where local government and CSOs have worked together to prevent Child Labour.

Speaker 4 – Highlight the efforts of the government of Madagascar to stop Child labour and the key problems faced at the country level to stop Child Labour.

Speaker 5 - Highlight the efforts of the government of Kenya to stop Child labour and the key problems faced at the country level to stop Child Labour.

The panel chair - Research findings from Kenya and Ethiopia on WFCL.