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Red Card to Child Labour
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In several sporting disciplines, but especially in football, the red card sanctions faults which are liable to exclusion from the field In 2002, the ILO and IPEC decided to use the symbol of the red card to raise awareness in preventing, challenging and eliminating child labour through advocacy campaigns.
"Red Card" takes place during international football competitions to inform the public on child labour issues with the aim of fostering the emergence of a world movement in favour of the elimination of this plague: 218 million children worldwide are at work, among them 126 million are intolerably exploited. -
Soccer Legend and former Brazilian Minister of Sports Pele has been a member of the Red Card Campaign since 2007. Joining the ranks of numerous other sports stars and international personalities, including Zidane, Roger Milla, Ronaldo, Rai, Sepp Blatter and Gilberto Gil, as well as presidents, prime ministers and ministers of Brazil, Cameroon, Costa Rica, East Timor, Egypt, Mali and Peru, Pele has added his voice to the global movement to end child labour. The ILO-FIFA Red Card Campaign mobilizes communities and sports associations in vulnerable neighbourhoods around to world to empower girls, boys and youth to participate in the fight against child labour. It encourages local sports initiatives to tell the world to give a "RED CARD to exploiters of children's rights".
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The Brazilian Minister of Labour, Mr. Carlos Lupi, and Indian Minister of Labour, Mr. Oscar Fernandes, hold up a red card to child labour and announce South-South cooperation to combat child labour, particularly its worst forms. Employers' and workers' representatives of both countries were also present at the bilateral meeting on the 6 June 2008. The two Ministers agreed to share good practices and invited each other, along with tripartite delegations, to visit different regions of their respective countries. Areas of common interest cited include labour inspection, conditional cash transfer mechanisms to combat child labour, and vocational training and school feeding programmes.