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"Music against Child Labour" Initiative
The International Labour Organization and its International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), in partnership with an array of renowned conductors, musicians, musicians’ organisations and music education bodies, launches its “Music against Child Labour” Initiative in June 2013.
The "Music against Child Labour" Initiative calls on orchestras, choirs and musicians of all genres worldwide to dedicate one concert in their planned repertoire between October 2013 and December 2014 to the struggle against child labour. The first concert in the series will be on the opening day of the Third Global Conference Against Child Labour in Brasilia, on 8 October.
The initiative takes its inspiration from the power of music, as a universal language, to communicate to wide audiences, and from the proven experience that involving socially excluded children in structured musical activity and education and making schools more attractive and child friendly can help protect them against child labour.
The Initiative's other elements: a new module on music education of the ILO’s Supporting Child Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media (SCREAM) programme; and a documentary film on the power of music education to contribute to combating child labour will be developed in the coming months.
The first signatories of the Manifesto are Claudio Abbado; José-Antonio Abreu; Alessio Allegrini; Daniel Barenboim; Benoît Machuel, General Secretary of the International Federation of Musicians (FIM); Diego Matheuz; Eduardo Mendez, Executive Director of the Fundación Musical Simon Bolivar El Sistema; Antonio Mosca; Musicians for Human Rights; Guy Ryder, Director General, ILO; and Blasko Smileski, General Secretary of Jeunesses Musicales International.
The "Music against Child Labour" Initiative calls on orchestras, choirs and musicians of all genres worldwide to dedicate one concert in their planned repertoire between October 2013 and December 2014 to the struggle against child labour. The first concert in the series will be on the opening day of the Third Global Conference Against Child Labour in Brasilia, on 8 October.
The initiative takes its inspiration from the power of music, as a universal language, to communicate to wide audiences, and from the proven experience that involving socially excluded children in structured musical activity and education and making schools more attractive and child friendly can help protect them against child labour.
The Initiative's other elements: a new module on music education of the ILO’s Supporting Child Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media (SCREAM) programme; and a documentary film on the power of music education to contribute to combating child labour will be developed in the coming months.
The first signatories of the Manifesto are Claudio Abbado; José-Antonio Abreu; Alessio Allegrini; Daniel Barenboim; Benoît Machuel, General Secretary of the International Federation of Musicians (FIM); Diego Matheuz; Eduardo Mendez, Executive Director of the Fundación Musical Simon Bolivar El Sistema; Antonio Mosca; Musicians for Human Rights; Guy Ryder, Director General, ILO; and Blasko Smileski, General Secretary of Jeunesses Musicales International.
