Number of children without critical social protection increasing globally – ILO and UNICEF

Multiple crises set to plunge more children into poverty creating an urgent need to scale-up social protection, new report warns.

Our impact, their voices

The mica dust made me sick, I’m glad to be back at school

When Suman Kumari was 13 her father became ill and the family fell into debt. When COVID-19 hit and with creditors at the door, she joined her mother at her workplace processing mica, a mineral dust used in cosmetics, paints and electronics. An ILO project has helped her return to school.

Impact stories

From child labour and forced labour to dreams of a better future

Today, more than 160 million children are in child labour and 28 million people are in forced labour. What do they need? How do they feel? And who is helping them?

Global Estimates of Child Labour

Understanding child labour statistics

While the percentage of children in child labour has remained unchanged over the four year period, the absolute number has increased by over 8 million.

Global Child Labour Conference agrees Durban Call to Action to end child labour

The ‘Durban Call to Action’ includes strong commitments on action against child labour while raising concerns that existing progress has slowed and is now threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflict, as well as food, environmental and humanitarian crises.

• 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour