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World Vision urges churches to take stock to end human trafficking and child labour

Thursday, October 15, 2015

World Vision Australia has launched a practical guide to ethical purchasing to help Australian churches make better choices about the everyday products they purchase to reduce the demand for human trafficking.

Media Releases, Child Labour, Slavery

Australians can give the gift of letting kids be kids this Christmas

Monday, December 1, 2014

This Christmas, World Vision is encouraging Australians to help protect vulnerable children from poverty and exploitation so they can enjoy the freedom all children should enjoy – of just being kids.

Media Releases, Child labour, Human trafficking, Forced and early marriage, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Child Labour, Child Slavery, Forced Marriage, Humanitarian, India, Indonesia, Philanthropy, South Sudan, Syria

G20 must deliver for the most vulnerable: Tim Costello

Sunday, November 9, 2014

World leaders must look beyond GDP growth numbers to the human impact of their economic reform commitments.

Media Releases, Poverty, Asia and the Pacific, Child Labour, Economic Development, Foreign Aid, G20, Human Rights, International Development, Tim Costello

G20 takes up child labour exploitation challenge

Friday, September 12, 2014

The world’s 168 million child labourers are firmly on the G20’s radar after a pivotal meeting of the world’s labour and employment ministers in Melbourne.

Media Releases, Child labour, Human trafficking, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Australian Government, Child Deaths, Child Labour, G20, Humanitarian, Report, Tim Costello

World Refugee Day highlights the shocking outlook for Syria’s children

Thursday, June 19, 2014

On World Refugee Day, World Vision Australia is urging Australians to remember the fact that more than half of the 2.8 million Syrian refugees fleeing conflict are children. The United Nations estimates that this number will reach a staggering 3 million refugees in just a few months.

Media Releases, Syrian Refugee Crisis, Emergencies, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Child Labour, Child Slavery, Child Violence, Disaster relief, Human trafficking, Refugees, Syria, United Nations, World Refugee Day

G20 must rescue 168 million from child labour – Costello

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

With one in ten children across the globe employed in child labour there is an urgent need for G20 nations to make sure their plans for growth are not built on the backs of the world’s innocents.

Media Releases, Child labour, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and Carribean, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Child Labour, Child Slavery, G20, Report, Tim Costello

Donors in Kuwait must commit $1 billion for Syria’s children

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

World Vision is calling for international donors to pledge USD 1 billion to meet the needs of children affected by the Syria crisis as more than 60 donor countries meet in Kuwait City today.

Media Releases, Syrian Refugee Crisis, Emergencies, Middle East, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Anthea Spinks, Child Labour, Child Rape, Child Violence, Foreign Aid, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Refugee Crisis, Save the Children, Syria, UNHCR, UNICEF

Trafficking advocacy in the spotlight with Freedom Award

Thursday, October 17, 2013

World Vision’s renowned anti-trafficking and slavery expert Melissa Stewart has been honoured with a Freedom Award from Anti-Slavery Australia.

Media Releases, Human trafficking, Child Labour, Freedom Award, Human trafficking, Julia Gillard, Slavery

Cadbury falls behind on addressing forced, child and trafficked labour

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

This Easter it’s time for Cadbury to hop to it and publish a timetabled commitment for moving entirely to ethical cocoa in its chocolate products, says international charity World Vision.

Media Releases, Child labour, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Cadbury, Child Labour, Child Slavery, Chocolate, Cocoa Industry, Ferrero, Lindt, Mondelez, Nestle`

World Vision welcomes landmark chocolate decision and a better future for cocoa farmers

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

World Vision Australia has welcomed the announcement by Nestlé that every chocolate confectionery product it sells in Australia will now be produced using sustainable cocoa.

Media Releases, Child labour, Africa, Child Labour, Child Slavery, Chocolate, Cocoa Industry, Human Rights, Nestle`, West Africa