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MAY14 - Some 80 kilometres from the bright lights of the bustling Chiredzi town, off the main highway to Masvingo, lay the docile and rather concealed Ward 16 of rural Chiredzi. Tucked at the heart of the ward are two major primary schools, Masimbiti and Uswaushava, separated by about 20 kilometers of vast stretches of bare sun-baked land. The two institutions are the major education centres for the villagers of the dry area where poor rains and water shortages are perennial. (Report by Tapiwa Zivira from  NewsDay Zimbabwe)

After two days of visiting the Child Labour Free Zones in Uganda, yesterday, the official part of the Conference "Out of work, Into School - started. It was a day full positive energy and inspiring speeches. 

On April 22^nd and 24^th, two stakeholder meetings for the footwear industry will take place in India, in Agra and in Chennai. These meeting are a direct result of the Stop Child Labour Campaign ‘We want child friendly shoes!’.

The Stop Child Labour movement is growing from strength to strength.
April 16th - 19th, child rights defenders populated the Ugandan capital Kampala.

Members of European Parliament Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Esther de Lange (both Christan Democrat, EEP) and Thijs Berman (Social Democrat, S&D) together raised a number of follow-up questions to the European Commission about child labour in the leather footwear industry.

At the E-waste in Accra in Ghana children torch discarded computers in order to salvage and sell precious metals from the junk electronics. Extremely dangerous and unhealthy work. Tons of computer hardware from the West gets dumped in Ghana.

A Danish journalist visited this dump, together with Stop Child Labour partner IBIS from Denmark, and wrote the following article. The article was originally published in the Danish newspaper Politiken.