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Don’t Steal My Childhood: Child Labor and Children in Migration
Don't Steal My Childhood! Child Labor and Children in Migration Despite significant progress in reducing child labor in the past two decades, most recent data show that global progress has stalled since 2016. Forced child labor deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity. It is harmful to their physical and mental health
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Don’t Steal My Childhood: Child Labor and Children in Migration
Don't Steal My Childhood! Child Labor and Children in Migration Despite significant progress in reducing child labor in the past two decades, most recent data show that global progress has stalled since 2016. Forced child labor deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity. It is harmful to their physical and mental health
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MSMEs in the Informal Sector: Formalization Ensure Sustainable Finance and Decent Jobs?
worldwide/virtualAbout 2 billion workers, or over 60 percent of the world’s adult labor force, operate in the informal sector --at least part-time, according to the ILO. The COVID-19 pandemic hit informal workers particularly hard, especially women. Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSME), both formal and informal, make up over 90% of all firms around the globe
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MSMEs in the Informal Sector: Formalization Ensure Sustainable Finance and Decent Jobs?
worldwide/virtualAbout 2 billion workers, or over 60 percent of the world’s adult labor force, operate in the informal sector --at least part-time, according to the ILO. The COVID-19 pandemic hit informal workers particularly hard, especially women. Micro Small Medium Enterprises (MSME), both formal and informal, make up over 90% of all firms around the globe
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One Earth, One Chance: UN COP15
worldwide/virtualThis conversation will look at the UN COP 15 experience and the diverse strategies for the urgent changes we need going into and coming out of that pivotal event. Grassroots pressure is crucial, as is policy change from within the multilateral spaces. The involvement of faith communities can be a game changer. The pressure must come
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One Earth, One Chance: UN COP15
worldwide/virtualThis conversation will look at the UN COP 15 experience and the diverse strategies for the urgent changes we need going into and coming out of that pivotal event. Grassroots pressure is crucial, as is policy change from within the multilateral spaces. The involvement of faith communities can be a game changer. The pressure must come
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Global Negotiations in a Fractured World
worldwide/virtual ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ CoNGO Notes: The NGO Committee on Financing for Development is a Substantive Committee of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations. Likewise, for more information on the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development/NY, please visit ngocsd-ny.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development/Vienna, please visit ngocsdvienna.org. For
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Global Negotiations in a Fractured World
worldwide/virtual ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ CoNGO Notes: The NGO Committee on Financing for Development is a Substantive Committee of the Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations. Likewise, for more information on the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development/NY, please visit ngocsd-ny.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on Sustainable Development/Vienna, please visit ngocsdvienna.org. For
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Sons and Daughters of Working Mothers: Successes and Challenges
“Sons and Daughters of Working Mothers: Successes and Challenges” February 23 | 1:15-2:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) The NGO Committee on the Family invites you to join us at our event “Sons and Daughters of Working Mothers: Successes and Challenges.” We will hear from Kathleen L. McGinn, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard
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Sons and Daughters of Working Mothers: Successes and Challenges
“Sons and Daughters of Working Mothers: Successes and Challenges” February 23 | 1:15-2:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) The NGO Committee on the Family invites you to join us at our event “Sons and Daughters of Working Mothers: Successes and Challenges.” We will hear from Kathleen L. McGinn, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard
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