ICCLE - The International Center on Child Labor and Education


	Rima Salah, Unicef, NY; Kari Tapiola, ILO, Geneva; Ad Melkert, World Bank, Washington, DC; and Kailash Sartyarthi, Global March, India

	Kailash Sartyarthi, Global March, India, at Inter-Agency Round Table on Child Labor and Education, Beijing, November 28, 2005

UNESCO's High-Level Group on Education for All
Every year UNESCO's High-Level Group on Education for All is convened by Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO. It brings together some thirty Ministers of Education and International Co-operation, heads of development agencies and civil society representatives. Mr. Kailash Satyarthi, Chairman of the Global March Against Child Labor, is the elected representative of civil society to UNESCO's High-Level Group on Education for All. The role of the High-Level Group is to sustain and accelerate the political momentum created at the World Education Forum and serve as a lever for resource mobilization.

Inter-Agency Round Table on the Elimination of Child Labor and Achieving EFA
The third Inter-Agency Round Table on Child Labor and Education took place in Beijing, China on November 28, 2005, on day one of UNESCO's fifth High-Level Group on Education for All, November 28-30. The event was co-hosted by the Ministry of Education, People's Republic of China, ILO, UNESCO, UNICEF and The World Bank.

As a result, paragraph 20 of the final Communiqué (outcome document) of UNESCO's High Level Group on Education for All reads:

"We acknowledge that child labour is a major obstacle to achieving EFA. We welcome the establishment of the Global Task Force on Child Labour and Education as a further step in enabling children to stop working and enjoy a quality education. We endorse its proposed role for advocacy, coordination and research in this field."