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eLearning Tools on Child Labour

eLearning tools on child labour

The eLearning tools are designed to help to better understand what child labour is and the key role ILO stakeholders can play.

Child Labour

International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

‘Action pledges’ needed to end child labour

Representatives from governments, worker and employer organizations, international agencies and civil society will outline how they intend to eradicate child labour by 2025, at a virtual event to launch the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.
- 2021: International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour
- Join the virtual launch event on 21 January
© Kids United

World Children’s Day

Kids United sings against child labour

French youth music group, Kids United New Generation, has lent their voices to the ILO’s global campaign to end child labour. Their latest song highlights the urgent need to take action and calls on governments and organizations around the world to do more.
Fundamental rights for a better future of work

Core work-related rights and principles can play a vital role in recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and help build a better, more equitable, world of work, says a new ILO report.
ILO Child Labour Convention achieves universal ratification

All 187 member States of the International Labour Organization have ratified the ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182).

News

Video

‘Action pledges’ needed to end child labour

21 January 2021
© Seng Mai / Photo Doc 2021

Voices

Child labour in Myanmar’s jade mines is a deadly gamble

21 January 2021
© Jake Brewer 2021

Child labour

2021: International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

15 January 2021

2017 Global Estimates of Child labour

Results and trends, 2012-2016

The report charts how far we have come and how far we still have to go to honour the commitment to end child labour. It also discusses key policy priorities in the campaign to reach the 2025 target. The report, and the global estimation exercise that underpins it, form part of a broader inter-agency effort under Alliance 8.7 to measure and monitor progress towards target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
- Full Report
- Executive Summary
- FAQs
- Regional Briefs: Africa, Americas, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia
- Methodology
- Press Release
World Report

Ending child labour by 2025: A review of policies and programmes

The latest Global Estimates indicate that 152 million children — 64 million girls and 88 million boys — are in child labour globally, accounting for almost one in 10 of all children worldwide. How can the world community get firmly on track toward eliminating child labour? This report points the way with policy approaches and responses.
Report

Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains

The report presents research findings and recommendations on child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains. Jointly authored by the ILO, OECD, IOM and UNICEF under the aegis of Alliance 8.7, the report also represents the first ever attempt to measure these human rights abuses and violations on a large scale.

Publications

Publication

IPEC+ Global Flagship Programme Implementation

03 July 2020
COVID-19

COVID-19 impact on child labour and forced labour: The response of the IPEC+ Flagship Programme

20 May 2020

Events

Launch event for the 2021 International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

21 January 2021

A mobile application against child labour

Eliminating and preventing child labour: Checkpoints for Companies

This app allows business managers and auditors to create interactive checklists that will help them ensure a child labour-free operation. There are 18 checkpoints in total, divided into six categories. Each checkpoint provides best-practice recommendations for taking action.
1. iOS version
2. Android version

Videos on child labour

The big picture

COVID-19 impact on child labour

Issue paper on COVID-19 and fundamental principles and rights at work

For the millions of workers already in vulnerable situations, the COVID-19 crisis can have devastating consequences: their fundamental rights at work are under threat, pushing them and their families towards greater insecurity. Safeguarding and extending fundamental principles and rights at work will therefore be critical to the success of both immediate and longer-term responses to the crisis in the world of work.
COVID-19 impact on child labour and forced labour: The response of the IPEC+ Flagship Programme

What is the real impact of COVID-19 on child labour and forced labour? How the ILO has repurposed its resources and operations to mitigate the devastating effects of the pandemic? How the international community can contribute to this effort?
COVID-19 and child labour: A time of crisis, a time to act

With the COVID-19 pandemic, we face the risk of reverting years of progress. We may see an increase in child labour for the first time in 20 years. This is why ILO and UNICEF decided to look into the ways the crisis is affecting child labour.

ILO Flagship programme

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour (IPEC+)

In line with Sustainable Development Target 8.7, IPEC+ focuses on the elimination of child labour in all its forms by 2025 and the eradication of forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking by 2030.

Get involved in our campaigns against child labour

ILO Programmes against child labour

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)

Created in 1992, IPEC has grown to become the biggest dedicated child labour programme in the world and the largest technical cooperation programme within the ILO. It is now operational in some 90 countries, benefiting millions of children worldwide.

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