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Posted on January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 by xn9zitlfKg

James Ritchie

James Ritchie is a New Zealander who has been living in Switzerland since 2012. He is married with 4 children.

Education: BA (Hons) University of Otago, NZ

From 2015- present, James has fulfilled the role of Assistant General Secretary, International Union of Food Workers (IUF) based in Geneva, Switzerland.

As well as general leadership work, James is responsible for the meat, dairy and industrial catering sectors

Between 2012-2015, he was an International Officer for the IUF.

From 2003- 2012 James Ritchie was the National Secretary of the New Zealand Dairy Workers Union.

From 1985 to 2003 he held various positions in the trade union movement in New Zealand including in the NZ Nurses Union, the Trade Union Education Authority and as an Executive member of the NZ Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU)

He also fulfilled governance roles for public authorities in his home country. He served two periods as a Board member for the Waikato District Health Board (regional health authority), 1989-91 and 1999- 2002 and from 1993-97 he was a Council member for the Waikato Polytechnic (tertiary education institution).

Between 2005- 2007 James was an appointee to NZ Government Food and Beverage Taskforce.

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The Global March Against Child Labour (Global March)

Posted on January 24, 2020 by xn9zitlfKg

Guy Rider

Guy Ryder

Director-General @ International Labour Organization

Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization (ILO) was first elected in 2012 and started a second term of office in 2017. His vision is for an ILO that anticipates and responds effectively to 21st century realities, reaching the most vulnerable and remaining true to its social justice mandate. He has served the ILO in various capacities, including as Executive Director for labour standards and fundamental principles and rights at work. From 2006-10 he was General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), having led the unification of the democratic international trade union movement. He is a graduate of Cambridge University.

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Posted on January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 by xn9zitlfKg

Kailash Satyarthi

Child rights activist @ Global March Against Child Labour

Mr. Kailash Satyarthi is internationally acclaimed child rights activist who has been a tireless advocate of children’s rights for four decades now. His interventions are spread across over 140 countries in the world in an endeavour to protect children from slavery, trafficking, forced labour, sexual abuse and all forms of violence. He has been instrumental in bringing the issues of children in the global and national development agendas besides leading worldwide movements against child exploitation and upholding the rights of children for peace, safety, health, wellbeing and education. His unrelenting efforts for restoring the rights of the most marginalized and exploited children in the world won him the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 2014**.

** 10^th December 2019 marks the 5^th Anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize for Children

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Posted on January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 by Nathalie Ankersmit

Amy Eaglestone

Amy Eaglestone has over 15 years’ experience working in the field of political participation and reform, many of those years were spent living and working in countries across Africa. She started her career with the Dutch Refugee Council (VluchtelingenWerk) and has since worked for a number of international organisations and NGO’s, including the UN mission in Liberia.

In recent years, she has specialised in dialogue support, developing innovative ways to increase sustainable outcomes. Amy is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham, her studies concern the impact of multilateral post-conflict interventions on domestic political decision making in post-soviet states. She is also an independent consultant in international politics.

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Posted on January 9, 2020 by Nathalie Ankersmit

Liesbeth Unger

Liesbeth Unger is the founder of Human Rights@Work, a consultancy dedicated to human rights and business. She works for governments, NGOs and multinational companies as well as SMEs helping to implement human rights in business. She has been working in the fields of corporate social responsibility, sustainability, social justice and ethical business in the past twenty years. She has been providing expert advice to the Fund against Child Labour of the Dutch government in the past three years , to ensure good proposals are being developed and initiating, organizing and facilitating knowledge sessions for participants of the Fund. She is an experienced trainer and facilitator.

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Posted on December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 by xn9zitlfKg

Molly Namirembe

Molly is a Ugandan aged 26. Currently she works as a program officer and a SCREAM trainer at Ecological Christian Organization (ECO), a non-governmental organization in Uganda. Molly is passionate about working with children and youth and she has done this since 2015. At ECO, she is implementing projects that are aimed at ending child trafficking and child labour.

Molly has a bachelor’s degree in social work and social administration from Makerere University. A certificate in HIV counselling and basic care for children and a certificate in child protection from Makerere University. For Molly supporting children is not just a job but a passion.

Molly is a living example of resilience as she is a former victim of child labour and now actively involved in global efforts to combat it. She was a panellist on the WDACL at the International Labour Conference in Geneva (June 2019).

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Posted on December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 by xn9zitlfKg

Sigrid Kaag

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation @ Dutch Government

Sigrid Kaag is Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, since October 2017. One of the priorities in her policy on sustainable production and trade is the elimination of child labour in global supply chains. She hosts this international meeting to increase efforts and scale up ambitions to end child labour in global supply chains.

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Posted on December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 by xn9zitlfKg

Eliza Anyangwe

Eliza Anyangwe is writer, managing editor of new digital publisher, The Correspondent, and an experienced moderator and facilitator. Eliza began her career working for non-governmental organisations, but has spent the past decade in media as a journalist, editor and producer, working for The Guardian, CNN International, and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 

Her clients for moderation and facilitation have included a diverse range of organisations and institutions including ECOSOC, Government of Belgium, IDH, Dell, Next Einstein Forum, Stockholm International Water Institute, Eat Forum, London Southbank Centre, the WTO, RSPO, and various UN agencies from UN Environment, to ITC and WSSCC.

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Posted on December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 by xn9zitlfKg

Trudy Kerperien

Trudy Kerperien is National Board Member and International Secretary of the General Union for Education (AOb). The AOb is the largest trade union in the Dutch education sector and the oldest trade union in the Netherlands. It is the Education Union of the FNV and affiliated to Education International (EI) and the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE). As representative of the AOb, Trudy is president of the Global Campaign for Education and involved in numerous coalitions and programmes for the eradication of child labour, such as the Stop Child Labour Coalition and the Work No Child’s Business Alliance. She has many years of practical experience in achieving better access to and improvement of the quality of education to prevent and eliminate child labour, and to break the poverty cycle. In this capacity, she works together with education unions, NGO’s, governments and companies in countries where child labour prevails.

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Posted on December 20, 2019January 24, 2020 by xn9zitlfKg

Amar Lal

Lawyer and former child labourer

Amar Lal, aged 23, comes from the Banjara community, a nomadic tribe in India. He worked as a child labourer in a stone quarry at the age of 6, breaking stones and incurring injuries in the process quite often. At 8 years old, he was rescued by Nobel Peace Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi and was rehabilitated at the Bal Ashram, the long-term children’s rehabilitation centre, where he received informal education and went on to complete school and study law.

During his time at the Bal Ashram, he always had an urge to fight for children’s rights and tried to have a direct impact on children and the elderly in the communities he visited as part of the Child Friendly Villages programme initiated by Mr. Satyarthi’s organization. He also raised awareness regarding child labour and the importance of education.

As a youth leader, Amar Lal has participated in a number of national and international events and campaigns concerning children’s rights, and today takes pride in fighting for the human rights of child labourers in his capacity as a freshly enrolled lawyer.

Amar Lal is a shining example of how hard work, passion and perseverance can enable you to overcome all odds, just as he has overcome his struggles as a child labourer and is now an active youth advocate raising his voice to help other children like him.

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