2000

1. Press release

   ILO worst forms of child labour Convention comes into force

   17 November 2000

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The global campaign against the worst forms of child labour receives a powerful new boost on Sunday, 19 November, the date when the International Labour Organization's (ILO) Convention No. 182 comes into force as international law.

1999

1. Press release

   U.S. ratifies ILO Convention against the worst forms of child labour

   02 December 1999

   SEATTLE (ILO News) - "U.S. President Clinton's signing today in Seattle of the instruments of ratification of the new international Convention against the worst forms of child labour is an important boost to the campaign for universal adoption of this landmark agreement," said Mr. Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO)

2. Press release

   New ILO child labour Convention receives first ratification

   30 September 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The Republic of Seychelles became the first country to formally ratify the ILO's newest international labour standard on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, Convention No. 182, which was adopted unanimously by the Organization's 174 member States at the International Labour Conference in Geneva last June.

3. Press release

   Juan Somavia calls on international organizations to join global campaign for the eradication of the worst forms of child labour

   05 July 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The Director-General of the International Labour Office has called on multilateral organizations and people everywhere to join in a global campaign for the eradication of the worst forms of child labour.

4. Press release

   ILO concludes 87 th Conference Adopts new instruments against child labour

   17 June 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Conference today wrapped up its 87 th session which heard addresses by three heads of state and a Nobel laureate, and reached a unanimous decision to adopt a Convention and Recommendation banning the worst forms of child labour.

5. Press release

   ILO adopts Convention banning worst forms of child labour and starts a campaign for its ratification

   17 June 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - International Labour Organization (ILO) member States today took a decisive step towards liberating scores of millions of children from slavery and debt bondage, prostitution and pornography, dangerous work and forcible recruitment for armed conflict.

6. Press release

   ILO to consider sweeping universal ban on worst forms of child labour

   25 May 1999

   GENEVA (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO), at its annual Conference here in June, is expected to adopt a new international Convention aimed at an immediate, universal ban on the worst forms of child labour that still afflict millions of children worldwide, and in some cases appear to be worsening.

1998

1. Press release

   Conference calls for abolition of child labour in Africa

   07 February 1998

   KAMPALA (ILO News) – Delegates from 22 African countries called today on African countries to commit themselves to the total abolition of child labour as prescribed in the ILO Minimum Age Convention (No. 138, 1973) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. They identified poverty "as the fundamental cause of child labour" and called for "increased international assistance to attack poverty."

2. Press release

   ILO Director-General warns of "tragedy" of child labour in Africa

   05 February 1998

   KAMPALA (ILO News) – The Director-General of the International Labour Organization, Mr. Michel Hansenne today called upon African nations to take urgent action to reverse the growing trend toward child labour on the continent and to take immediate steps to eliminate child labour in its most intolerable forms.

1997

1. Press release

   At least 15 million children at work in Latin America The most intolerable forms of child labour targeted at the Cartagena Meeting

   07 May 1997

   ILO/97/11