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Invite you to a panel discussion in Washington, DC to address this
year?s theme
Education - The Right Response to Child Labor
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| According to ILO estimates, | World Day Against Child |
| there are over 200 million child | Labor |
| laborers in the world between 5 | |
| and 17 years old. Approximately | Thursday, June 12, 2008 |
| 165 million children between the | 1:00 - 3:30 pm |
| ages of 5 and 14 are missing out | World Bank J Building |
| on school to work often long | Auditorium J1-050 |
| hours in dangerous conditions. | 701 18th Street, NW |
| There is a need to focus efforts | |
| on the remaining 15-25% of | |
| children out of school, and | For non Bank staff, |
| recognize child labor as the | please RSVP to |
| largest barrier to achieving | infoshopevents@worldbank. |
| Education for All (EFA) by 2015. | org |
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| This event will include a | |
| discussion among panelists | |
| followed by a wider debate with | |
| other participants. The | |
| panelists will cover ground on | |
| Government efforts in the North | |
| and South to confront this | |
| situation. | |
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Introduction
Sudhanshu Joshi, Executive Director, ICCLE
Short Film Screening
Rescuing Emmanuel
Len Morris, Galen Films
Panel I: Education for All: Progress, Gaps, and Challenges
MODERATOR: Robert Prouty, Deputy Head of FTI Secretariat, The
Education For All Fast-Track
Rogerio Studart, Executive Director for Brazil, Colombia, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Suriname, Trinidad &
Tobago, World Bank
Dhanendra Kumar, W.Bank?s Executive Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India and Sri Lanka
Nicholas Burnett, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
Cream Wright, Head for Education, UNICEF
Gene Sperling, Center on Universal Education, Senior Fellow at the
Center for American Progress, Senior Fellow for Economic Policy and
Director of the Council on Foreign Relations (TBC)
Panel II: Policy integration -
Linking Education with Other Child Labor Eradication Factors
MODERATOR: Armand F. Pereira, Director, ILO
Kailash Satyarthi, Chair, Global March (via V/C)
H.E Mark P. Lagon, Ambassador at Large, Trafficking in Persons
Office, State Department
Marcia Eugenio, Director, Office for Child Labor, Forced Labor,
Human Trafficking, U.S. Department of Labor
Jan Eastman, Deputy General Secretary, Education International
Aud Kolberg, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Norway
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About the International Labour Organization (ILO)
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is devoted to advancing
opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work
in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. Its
main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment
opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in
handling work-related issues. In promoting social justice and
internationally recognized human and labour rights, the organization
continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is
essential to prosperity. Today, the ILO helps advance the creation
of decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that
give working people and business people a stake in lasting peace,
prosperity and progress.
For more information, please visit: www.ilo.org
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