Century Quote by Craig Kielburger

Child labour is a global problem that needs a response from all sides. This means measures to help reduce poverty, improve education, enforce laws,…

— Guy Ryder

In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of…

— Brian Eno

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is…

— Carol Bellamy

It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't all be…

— Noam Chomsky

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out…

— Juan Somavia

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of…

— Dia Mirza

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.

— Carol Bellamy

...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but…

— Juan Somavia

Child labour may be distasteful to westerners, but does boycotting goods made with child labour improve or exacerbate the lot of third world children?…

— Noreena Hertz

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor.…

— Jonathan Kozol

What can we do to make the world's children a priority...

— Alyssa Milano