Our important tool to effect changes at a broader level, to shape public opinion and to influence programs and policies of the government and international bodies. This process is integrated in all our programs and starts from local to international levels.

Our main focus

• Abolition of child labour

• Abolition of bonded (forced) labour

• Free and compulsory education for all; equity in education; common syllabus and child friendly schools

• Right to work as a fundamental right (with stress on implementation of minimum wages for all)

• Ensuring gender equality

• Protecting environment

By our constant advocacy and lobbying through various networks and forums, the government of India had issued a notification in October 2006 banning employment of children as domestics, in eateries, resorts and recreational centers. Employment of children in hazardous industries is already prohibited.

Another landmark achievement of the voice of the people is the Constitutional Amendment in 2005 making ‘free and compulsory primary education’ a fundamental right.