As part of the “Investing in People” Programme, the European Commission has launched a call for proposals to providing funding to projects fighting child labour in developing countries. Accordingly, child labour worldwide is causing terrible hardships for children leading to their exploitation and risking their lives to work hazards. It is also damaging their physical, mental and emotional growth. Children also succumb to worst forms of child labour such as trafficking, armed conflict, slavery, sexual exploitation and hazardous work.
The European Commission has adopted several approaches for promoting the rights of children at the international level. “The EU Guidelines on the Rights of the Child 5 underline that child labour, as one of global problems, needs to be tackled by the EU in its external policy towards children.” “In June 2009 the Fourth European Forum on the Rights of the Child7 focussed on how to effectively address child labour, in particular in the EU’s external relations, through EU instruments by addressing the theme of child labour both from the perspective of social protection and from the angle of corporate social responsibility (CSR).”
Under this context, this call for proposals has been issued to address the child labour problem by advocating effective policies and strengthen partnerships especially with the private sector by promoting the CSR against child labour.
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