The eradication of child labour: contributions from public-private cooperation in times of crisis
Date: 9 June 2009
Time: 10:30am to 2pm.
Place: Círculo de Bellas Artes,
C/ Marqués de Casa Riera, 2. Madrid
The World Day against Child Labour is celebrated on 12 June. For this reason, alongside public and private institutions participating in activities for the eradication of child labour, we have agreed to hold a "Week against child labour", coordinating several events between 8 and 12 June aimed at raising the awareness of this problem in civil society, and finding new ways of collaboration to eliminate this serious social problem that affects children around the world.
This year, logically, as well as sharing the most innovative proposals and lessons in the area, we must include important reflections on the impact that the crisis has or could have in the most vulnerable social sectors exposed to different forms of exclusion, which could therefore raise child labour rates and even lead to new forms of it.
Fundación Telefónica in collaboration with OIT-SCREAM, has organised the Third Proniño Forum, an institutional committee has been formed as part of the Forum. We suggest that senior representatives from different participating public and private bodies take part and give their opinion on this situation.
We have also invited the internationally renowned expert, Dr. Bernard Kliksberg to give a keynote speech on the impact of the crisis in Latin American societies, how this could affect the fight against child labour, and to draw up proposals for action in the context of public-private partnership.
Finally, based on the principles that it is possible to speed up our commitment and results to bring us closer to accomplishing these important goals, i.e. eradicating the worst forms of child labour by 2015, and eliminating all child labour by 2020, we want to give the voices back to the main actors of these social processes aimed at transforming and restoring childrens' rights. The idea is that by presenting their experiences we can reflect and gain new elements to help us draw up successful strategies to eradicate child labour in Latin America and the rest of the world.