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De:	"Sandhya Ch" [ Profil ]
Sujet:	On-line petition
Envoyé:	Jul 25th, 2007 - 23:19:45

	Dear Child Rights group members! I am Sandhya from New Delhi, India. I work for Global March Against Child Labour, the world's largest civil society netwrok on the issue of child labour. We have initiated a campaign called "Keep Your Promises" with relation to the mid-way mark to the Millennium Development Goals. We are sending out a petition to the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon with the all important message that the World leaders keep up their promises to the world's children. Please sign the petition the link of which I am attaching below. The petition is present in English and Spanish. So you could choose whichever language you are comfortable with. ................................................................................................................................................................................................... Tell Government Leaders To Keep Their Promises To The World's Children "Keep Your Promises" is a campaign to remind the governments on the promises and commitments they have made specifically to the children of their countries and the world at large – the commitments to protect children in hazardous child labour, out-of-school children, universalisation of education and gender parity, all within the larger framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The year 2007 (07.07.07) is the mid-term of the commitments that governments made for the MDGs to be achieved by 2015. It is extremely significant for us to bring the focus back on the children, especially those who are being denied their rights to freedom, childhood and education. The world has already missed the goal of gender parity by 2005. It is time we take stock of the situation and work in a concerted manner to keep the promises made. Facts: - One in seven children is a child labourer: that's nearly 14 per cent of the children in the age group 5-14 years. - One in five children do not go to school – this is nearly 18 per cent of the children in the age group (primary school). - Most of them (57 percent) were girls! Huge numbers of them work as child labourers. - There are over 238 million young people living on less than one dollar a day. Child labour can be eliminated and replaced by universal education within 20 years at an estimated cost of US$760 billion. The benefits of eliminating child labour within the next two decades will amount to an estimated US$ 5.1trillion for both developing and transitional economies, where most child labourers are found. Read the entire text and sign the petition at: http://www.globalmarch.org/campaigns/keepyourpromises/petition.php Best regards Sandhya Global March Against Child Labour L-72, Kalkaji New Delhi-110019 Ph:+91-11-2622 4899 www.globalmarch.org e-mail: info (at) globalmarch.org From Exploitation to Education

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