Global Petition on Child Labour and the Millennium Development Goals

The continued existence of child labour is an obstacle to achieving the MDGs and, without achieving the MDGs, child labour cannot eliminated. The development goals of achieving the MDGs and eliminating and preventing child labour are inextricably linked and yet child labour remains as an invisible ninth MDG.

While not explicit in the list of eight Goals, eliminating child labour is nonetheless as critical as the others and cuts across the themes of them all. As long as millions children are forced by poverty and others circumstances into situations of exploitative labour, then they will continue to swell the ranks of those out of school.

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Sign this Call on the MDG Summit to Demand Budget Transparency

Governments worldwide have committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 — including the improvement of maternal health. To know what still needs to be done, we need to know what is already being done. This requires detailed, comprehensive budget information.

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