What you can do
As a politician
Where best to start the fight against child labour? With employers who allow children to work in their factories? With importers who buy the products from the factories as cheaply as possible? With shopkeepers and customers who are not critical about what they buy?
Since each of these individual parties depends on the others, they would benefit from a more transparent system that involves labelling products to indicate whether they have been made "humanely" – or at least to provide a better understanding of the origin of the products. Stricter control and certification of products that are imported into Europe would be a means of addressing child labour in a broad way. Governments could link aid for primary education to action against child labour. Stop Child Labour endeavours to influence policy and calls on governments to do more to tackle child labour.
