Suggested activities for students

Are there local or national examples that you can identify? Find out what others are doing. (Check Internet sources if those are available to you). Of the UNICEF recommendations, which do you feel would be priority areas for your country? Make posters. Tell others what you learn. Find out if your Government has ratified the Conventions concerning Child Labour (A status of countries and their actions concerning Convention No. 182 is available at http://www.globalmarch.org/convention-campaign/index.html) Write your Government leaders. Urge them to ratify the Child Labour Conventions No. 182 -- if they have not already done so. Letters can do a lot. If your Government has ratified the Convention, write and ask what's being done to implement it? Has your country developed a plan of action? If so, what does it say? What is being done to address local or national issues? Who's helping? How can they use support? Organise a forum to learn more about the issues in your school and invite those who are working on the issues to speak and make recommendations for actions you can take. Support federal legislation that improves the conditions of child labourers in your country. Find out what others are doing, for example, the Free the Children campaign in Canada or the School for Iqbal campaign in the United States. Support these efforts or start your own. Shop smart. As a consumer ask where and how items you are purchasing were made. Use your purchases to help improve conditions for children, not aid in their exploitation. Start a letter-writing campaign in your school or gather signatures on a petition to send to local or national authorities to let them know of your interest and concern.