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Global Petition: Child Labour and the Millennium Development
Goals
The TUC is calling for the UN summit this month (20-22
September, New York) to develop a concrete plan to achieve the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the target date of 2015. All
eight goals are vital to tackling global poverty, but some are more
closely related to our work as trade unionists than others.
That's why the TUC is supporting the Global March Against Child
Labour petition
to encourage the UN to put greater emphasis on abolishing child
labour and getting children into full-time education. While not
explicit in the list of eight MDGs adopted by world leaders in
2000, eliminating child labour is a critical issue that cuts across
all the other Goals, aimed at slashing poverty, hunger, disease,
maternal and child deaths and other ills by 2015.
Other International Campaigns
Costa Rica's pineapple plantations
Workers on Costa Rica's pineapple plantations have to endure
appalling working conditions and anti-union employers. This report
from the
Guardian newspaper was made in conjunction with GMB's
partner union SITRAP and vividly illustrates the problems they
face.
Make Fruit Fair
GMB supports the Make
Fruit Fair Campaign which is funded by the European Union and
produced by a consortium of NGOs, including our partners, Banana
Link.
GMB Appeal Pablo
Lopez
Casa
Quemada