All ILO Newsroom content

November 2012

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   Rights in Myanmar

   Reform process in Myanmar is irreversible, says ILO expert

   16 November 2012

   As US President Barack Obama heads to Myanmar, the ILO’s liaison officer in Yangon discusses the various changes this Southeast Asian country has been going through.

October 2012

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   International Day of the Girl Child

   ILO says discrimination against young girls must end

   10 October 2012

   The world must make sure that girl children find their rightful places at home, school and, as they grow up, at work - on equal terms with boys.

August 2012

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   From Haiti

   Slavery in a free land

   29 August 2012

   The use of children as domestic workers is pervasive throughout Haiti. Though culturally accepted for generations, a new campaign has been launched to combat what is one of the worst forms of child labour.

June 2012

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   News

   ILO survey: 5.5 million working children in the Philippines

   27 June 2012

   The government has announced it is scaling up the campaign to put an end to the worst forms of child labour by 2016.

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   Video News Release

   Ending Child Labour by 2016: the Continuing Challenge

   12 June 2012

   There has been progress in the effort to eliminate the worst forms of child labour worldwide. As a result of international commitments and the ILO convention to eradicate the worst forms of child labour, tens of millions of children around the world are out of work and in school. But as the world gets closer to the deadline in 2016 for the eradication of child labour around the world, the pace of progress is slowing.

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   Article

   Working a childhood away in Afghanistan’s kilns

   07 June 2012

   Children as young as five work as brick makers in Afghanistan’s kilns, as poverty and debt keep their families in low-wage bonded labour. Tackling the issue is far more complex than just banning child labour in the kilns, the ILO says.

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   Article

   From a child’s eye: Working in the hot sharp salt fields of Cambodia

   07 June 2012

   This year, the world marks the tenth anniversary of the annual World Day Against Child Labour. But for many parents in Cambodia, sending their children to work is an economic necessity.

April 2012

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   Video

   India: Out of the Repair Shop and In to School

   10 April 2012

   When you think of what trade unions do, rescuing children from illegal child labour is not usually the first thing that comes to mind. But in India's Tamil Nadu State, six trade unions have come together to eradicate child labour, especially in its most hazardous forms. In the district of Erode, nearly a hundred children have been removed from auto and motorcycle repair shop work and are now back in school.

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   Video

   Fighting Child Labour in India's Carpet Industry

   10 April 2012

   Eradicating child labour is difficult, but some employers in India are finding a way. And along the way to eliminating child labour, employers are also discovering that it makes good business sense as well.

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   Video

   A Trade Union's Battle against Child Labour in Ghana

   10 April 2012

   In Ghana, the General Agricultural Workers' Union, known as the "G-A-W-U" with support from the ILO, has had a major impact on eliminating the worst forms of child labour. Acting both independently, and using "social dialogue" to collaborate with employers and government, the union fights child labour in three key sectors: fisheries, palm oil production, and cocoa farming.