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Press releases Child Labour & Education:

Jun 10, 2011: 
World Day Against Child Labour 2011 – ILO calls for urgent action against hazardous forms of child labour (press release ILO)
Jun 10, 2010: 
More than half a million child labourers in Indian seed production - Situation improved where government, NGOs and companies intervened (media release ICN/'Stop Child Labour'/ILRF)
Apr 2, 2010: 
Campaign ‘Stop Child Labour – School is the best place to work’ launches worldwide petition: Eradicate all child labour, get every child into school (press release Campaign 'Stop Child Labour')
May 9, 2008: 
Child labour and Corporate Social Responsibility: what the European Union should do (press release Campaign 'Stop Child Labour')
Feb 19, 2008: 
Action Plan for Companies to Combat Child Labour launched in Delhi
Sep 25, 2007: 
New report: 'Child bondage continues in Indian cotton supply chain'
Jun 8, 2007: 
Child labour in India in cotton seed tackled by MNC's Bayer and Monsanto, but issue is far from solved
Oct 9, 2006: 
EU-India Summit should focus on urgent issues of child labour and education (press release Campaign 'Stop Child Labour')
Aug 4, 2006: 
India's new ban on child labour welcome, but forgets work in agriculture and at home (press release Campaign 'Stop Child Labour')
May 4, 2006: 
The ILO is aiming too low: For most children the end of child labour is not within reach (press release Campaign 'Stop Child Labour')
Nov 22 2005: 
Louis Michel Promises to Take Action Against Child Labour (press release Alliance 2015/Campaign 'Stop Child Labour')
Nov 18 2005: 
Campaign urges European Commissioner Michel to take Action on the Eradication of Child Labour (press release Alliance 2015/Campaign 'Stop Child Labour')
Oct 31 2005: 
Companies perpetuate child labour in India by low prices and flawed inspection
Jul 20, 2005: 
Campaign 'Stop Child Labour' welcomes resolution European Parliament (press release Campaign 'Stop Child Labour')
Feb 25, 2005: 
"World Day Against Child Labour 2005" to focus on child labour in mines and quarries (press release ILO)
Nov 8, 2004: 
MEP pledges support for campaign to eradicate child labour in India (press release MV Foundation / Hivos)
4-10-2004: 
Multinational and Indian companies still profit from bonded child labour on cottonseed farms in India
Oct 24, 2003: 
Multinationals pledge to end child labour in Indian seed production
May 19, 2003: 
Unilever asks its Indian subsidiary HLL to discuss child labour
May 14, 2003: 
Unilever, Monsanto and other multinationals involved in large-scale child labour in India's cotton seed production - Start of European campaign 'Stop child labour - School is the best place to work'


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