On Friday October 9th, ACE held a panel session for the C20 Summit 2020 on, “Promoting CSO-Business-Government Collaboration in the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour towards the Achievement of SDG 8.7”. Each experienced panellist brought to the table an innovative case study of collaboration from the three sectors, and from four corners of the globe. The C20 Summit 2020 was held in Saudi Arabia last month between October 6th-10th. The annual summit pro

ACE won the Special Award category for our holistic approach to the long-term elimination of child labour, including supporting the quality education of children in India and Ghana, providing income generation support to low-income families, investigating human rights violations in supply chains, and promoting corporate social responsibility. The Japan Times’s Satoyama & ESG Awards are given to corporations, organisations and individuals who have made significant contributio

On 9th March 2020, the new Child Labour Free Zone system (CLFZ-system) came into effect in Ghana. It will be used to monitor, verify and certify that areas have eliminated child labour and have the mechanisms in place to continue to protect children from hazardous work, while also safeguarding other fundamental children’s rights. Eligible areas will be assessed and, if successful, certified as a "Child Labour Free Zone" ; cacao production areas are currently the main targets

Hi there, this is Yuka Tayanagi, ACE's India Project Manager. I wanted to give everyone an update on the current situation in our community projects, in a country particularly hard-hit by the outbreak of the Corona virus. As of August 17th, there were 2,640,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and number of deaths has exceeded 50,000. There is a lot of fear that infections will continue to spread to more local villages. We obviously have not been able to visit the project areas in th

A look back on how our PEACE India operation's impact long after project completion to fulfil its goal to ensure the long-term elimination of child labour ACE'S PEACE India Project aims to eliminate child labour and support children's quality education in the cotton production areas of ​​India, specifically in Telangana state where approximately 480,000 child labourers work in the cotton fields. “I want to send my own kids to school, not to work” ACE has been implementing it

Japan hosted a G20 Summit meeting for the first time in Osaka on June 28 and 29, 2019. ACE took this opportunity to conduct a series of advocacy activities for over a year. Please find a report on the activities below. The result was what we had expected: G20 showed their commitments to the elimination of child labour in the Leaders’ Declaration and the Ministerial Declaration of Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting. Policy recommendations from the Civil 20 (C20) As a mem