16/05/08: A roundtable meeting organised by the Alliance2015's Stop Child Labour – School is the best place to work campaign took place on 13 May in the European Parliament.

Participants were addressed by two keynote speakers: Thijs Berman MEP and Richard Howitt MEP, who discussed concrete public policies, including regulatory measures, to be introduced by the European Union and its member states to eradicate child labour in the framework of corporate social responsibility.

Click on the following links for additional information about the roundtable:

• Press Release - Stop Child Labour and Members of the European Parliament present concrete proposals to the European Commission to combat child labour
• IPS News article - Europe: Call to link trade with children's rights 
• Meeting Report - Child Labour and Corporate Social Responsibility: What should the EU do?
• Action Plan for Companies to Combat Child Labour - Out of work and into school
• Recommendations to the EU on Child labour and Corporate Social Responsibility

Brussels, 14/05/08: This week, a delegation of representatives from West Papua, representing both the Justice and Peace commissions (SKP) from the dioceses of Merauke and Jayapura and the Protestant Church (GKI Papua), is in Brussels to participate in a set of meetings. They will attend a briefing at the European Parliament on Thursday 15 May as well as have bilateral meetings with representatives from the European Institutions and civil society throughout the week.

For more information, please contact from EEPA.

A roundtable meeting on child labour and corporate social responsibility will be held on Tuesday 13 May 2008 in Brussels.

The roundtable Child Labour and Corporate Social Responsibility: What the European Union should do will discuss and promote concrete public policies, including regulatory measures, by both the European Commission and the EU member states to eradicate child labour in the framework of corporate social responsibility. The meeting will be co-hosted by Thijs Berman MEP and Richard Howitt MEP.

This event is being facilitated by EEPA for the Alliance2015 campaign ‘Stop Child Labour – School is the best place to work.

Click here to read the invitation and draft programme.

For more information please contact  from EEPA (Tel. 02 238 50 53).

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• that the complete EPAs will replace the interim agreements
• that any ACP country is entitled to any more favourable provisions from any other agreement initialled by an ACP country
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