The ‘Stop Child Labour – School is the best place to work’ campaign is based on the conviction that the Millennium Development Goals can only be achieved if all forms of child labour are eradicated and all children up to the age of 15 are given the opportunity of full-time education. The campaign aims to convince policy makers that they should close the gap between Millennium Goal 2 – i.e., that all children receive at least five years of primary education – and ILO Convention 138, which states that children should only be allowed to work from the age of 15. The campaign aim, therefore, is to achieve that, by 2015 every child receives formal, regular and uninterrupted education for at least 8 or 9 years.

Alliance2015 is a partnership of six like-minded non-government organizations working in the field of development cooperation. The Alliance members are Cesvi from Italy, Concern from Ireland, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe from Germany, Hivos from the Netherlands, Ibis from Denmark and People in Need from the Czech Republic

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Hivos is in charge of the coordination of this campaign.

Contact details:
Lizzy Noone, Campaign Co-ordinator for Ireland.
Email: lizzy.noone@concern.net
52 - 55 Lower Camden Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Phone: 00 353 1 417 7740

Within Ireland, the campaign is supported by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the teachers unions Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, Teachers Union of Ireland and Irish National Teachers Organisation.

Within the Netherlands, the campaign is a joint initiative of Hivos, the India Committee of the Netherlands, the Dutch Teachers Union, and FNV Mondiaal.