by Marieke Erlenstedt | Feb 13, 2023 | Events
Looniva, where are you from? I am from Lalitpur, Nepal. How is your living situation? My living situation has been quite average right now since my sister started working. I live with my uncle and my aunt as well as my sister. My sister works in a college. Our parents...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Jan 26, 2023 | Updates
This January, Dialogue Works successfully hosted its first ever Global Gathering of working Children and Youth in Kigali, Rwanda, a conference for working children and youth representatives to exchange, to learn from one another, to build capacities and share key...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Oct 28, 2022 | Events
Dialogue Works is happy to announce our campaign’s first ever Global Gathering of working children in Kigali, Ruanda! We are planning an entire week of exchange, learning and action planning for the delegates of all 30 CACs in January 2023. For the first time...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Oct 25, 2022 | Advocacy
After she represented Dialogue Works at the V. Global Conference in Durban in May, CAC member Ashley visited Berlin last week. In meetings with politicians, government officials and youth representatives she shared experiences from her daily life as well as from her...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Aug 5, 2022 | Advocacy
A few weeks after participating in the V. Global Conference for the Elimination of Child Labour in Durban, South Africa, our delegates have looked back on the experience. They shared their thoughts and reflections in this...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Jun 17, 2022 | Advocacy
In May 2022, South Africa hostet the V. Global Conference for the Elimination of Child Labour – a first on the agenda: a forum dedicated to children’s participation on Thursday, May 19th. Five representatives of the Dialogue Works Global CAC were invited...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Apr 29, 2022 | Advocacy
Every 5 years representatives of governments, unions, employers, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and civil society come together to review the situation of working children worldwide, the progress made to eliminate the worst forms of child labour and the...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Apr 29, 2022 | Updates
In January 2022 the first meeting of the Global Children’s Advisory Committee of Dialogue Works took place. 16 CAC members from 8 countries from different all parts of the world will from now on meet to advise, support and strengthen the advocacy of the...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Apr 7, 2022 | Partners
In a CAC meeting working children from Kenya discussed how they were not allowed to participate in their community’s Barazas. Baraza means a place where public meetings are held to discuss issues that affect the community. It’s always chaired by the area...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Apr 4, 2022 | Publications
Despite all difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Dialogue Works and its partner organisation have implemented a variety of activities with and for working children. Find all the details in our annual report. The annual report is available in english and...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Jan 25, 2022 | Partners
One primary goal of our campaign is to empower working children and to encourage them to advocate on their own behalf. We will regularly present examples of such advocacy on this website – today one from our partner organisation Vigyan in India. On december 27th...
by Marieke Erlenstedt | Jan 17, 2022 | Partners
One primary goal of our campaign is to empower working children and to encourage them to advocate on their own behalf. One excellent example of such an advocacy action is presented by the Children’s Advisory Committee (CAC) from our partner Children’s...
