News
2021
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UN Year: End Child Labour 2021
Laura Pausini: Education and music empowers children
10 March 2021
The Music Against Child Labour Initiative's international song competition will be judged by Grammy and Golden Globe Winner, Laura Pausini.
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Voices
A song to let children fly
03 February 2021
Sri Lankan music star Ridma Weerawardena talks about his hit song "Let them fly" and why he decided to join the fight against child labour. Read more on our new multimedia Voices platform.
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Press release
Music competition launched to raise awareness of child labour
03 February 2021
The competition aims to harness the power of music to help combat child labour, which affects 152 million children worldwide.
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UN Year: End Child Labour 2021
AR Rahman: Let's use the power of music to fight child labour
03 February 2021
Music transcends all barriers. The Music Against Child Labour Initiative launches an international song competition this February with AR Rahman as one of the esteemed judges.
2020
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World Children’s Day
Kids United sings against child labour
20 November 2020
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.
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Song
"Take a Stand" - Song calling for action to end child labour
"Take a Stand" song by the French band Kids United New Generation, dedicated to the UN International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, 2021.
2019
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Press release
Let them fly, don’t clip their wings !
26 November 2019
Ridma Weerawardena is the latest musician from around the world to join the ILO’s Global Music Against Child Labour Initiative. The song is his contribution to the global and Sri Lankan fight to end child labour
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Video
'Till everyone can see" – Hindi version
12 June 2019
Launch of the Hindi adaptation of the song, 'Till everyone can see", on the occasion of the World Day against Child Labour (WDACL) 2019. The theme of WDACL is "Children shouldn't work in fields but on dreams". The song video was launched during the Joint ILO-MOLE-VVGNLI event to observe the WDACL on 12 June 2019.
2018
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Article
Empowerment through music: Lebanon’s choir against child labour
04 June 2018
Children who have a history of child labour have embarked on a musical journey led by the ILO and Lebanon’s Ministry of Labour, and have taken their talents to Lebanon’s Presidential Palace for their first ever performance.
2017
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Concert
Rodolfo Mederos concert at the IV Global Conference on Child Labour
Rodolfo Mederos, a co-founder of the Music Against Child Labour Initiative, will perform with his “Orquesta Típica” on the opening day of the IV Global Conference on Child Labour in Argentina.