- END CHILD SLAVERY WEEK (ECSW )2014
The first ECSW world run from Thursday, November 20th to Wednesday, November 26th
- ECSW 2014 DEMAND
Abolition of child slavery to be incorporated into the post-2015 Global Development Agenda.
WHY- an estimated 21 million slaves
- 5.5 million children are enslaved
- 26% of slaves today are children under 18 years
- In 1850, a slave in the US cost $40,000. Today it costs $90
- Slave labour generates $150 billion a year
Forced to work for upto 18 hours a day, these children are sold at prices less than even that of cattle.
The End Child Slavery Week (ECSW) is determined to change this by bringing together global citizens, trade unions, teachers unions, child rights organisations and each one of us to stand up against child slavery.
New Delhi, India
22 Novemeber, Saturday
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