Sustainable Measures to End Child Labour

Saturday, 6 June, 2009

15:30 – 16:45

One in 6 children in the world is engaged in child labour. There are 69 million child labourers in Sub-Saharan Africa and 44 million in South Asia.  Child labour is often a response to poverty. How do we bring about systemic changes to make the elimination of child labour sustainable? How do we create improved social infrastructure that can take the place of the livelihood that child labour currently brings to many poor households?

Confirmed Panelists

Aidan McQuade – Director, Anti-Slavery International

Susan E. Gunn – Senior Technical Specialist in Hazardous Child Labour, International Labour Organization

Maria Gabriella Lay – Programme Manager, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, International Labour Organization

Fernando Rosales – First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Bolivia to the United Nations, Geneva

Moderator

Michael Hathorn – Partner, Optimis Human Capital Management

Panel Coordinators

Dr. Shobha Das and Aarti Agrawal, University of Geneva IOMBA 2009

To contact the panel coordinators, please e-mail: panels@gfsc.ch