And do we have the will to end child labour? Craig would tell you: ``Though world has changed a bit but we need to do something more to spread our movement and take it to a point when the phenomenon, child labour, is exiled for ever.''

Fifteen-year-old Craig, who has flown to India from Toronto, Canada, with a mission to tell children and the people to resist child exploitation in any form, informed the Calcuttans today that ``It's not far when the world would realise not to trifle with the children's right to a decent living.'' The children, ``the leaders of tomorrow, can change the world today if they so wish,'' Craig warned.

``And we must do everything to speed up the process and tell the world that you halt your evil designs,'' he said. Andhe told an enthralled audience here that for the last two years, he could see ``a perceptible change in the consciousness-level of the children who are now turning round and telling the world to stop their abuse.''

For Craig the realization that there would be someone to speak for these voiceless and exploited millions began three years back as he read a news about how a teen-age child labour, Iqbal Mashi, was murdered for ``his sin of escaping a carpet weaving factory in Pakistan.''

``The lad was 12-year-old when he was killed and when I read the news I was of same age, it hurt me to read that Mashi should have paid with his life for trying to escape the bondage,'' Craig recalled as he revealed to audience the story behind his initiation into the cause.

And Craig could be true when he tells you that ``the world is coming round the point that it can no more ignore the rights of the children who live in hovels, streets and spend their days in some dark holes of hazardous factories.''

Perhaps as atribute to his efforts and building up a powerful movement to spread awareness throughout the world, Craig Kielburger was invited to address the world leaders at the State of the World Forum at San Francisco. And once there, he shook the global conscience exposing the world's abject indifference towards child exploitation.

Craig, who heads Free the Children organisations in 20 countries, has undertaken six-day ITC Education Trust-sponsored tour of Indian cities, Calcutta, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad Chennai and Delhi, to campaign for his mission.

Craig, who visited India for the third time, has plans to set up rehabilitation centres for child in distress who will be given vocational training in these centres.

Designated as the Global Leader of Tomorrow, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland recently, Craig exhorted nations to make the education and protection of the children a priority in their social and economic agenda. Craig also revealed that the Free The Children would soon worktowards a global movement to campaign for allowing the children representatives in both government and international bodies, including United Nations, to take part in the decision-making process.