News
2020
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World Day Against Child Labour 2020
Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!
12 June 2020
Marking the World Day Against Child Labour 2020 under the theme of "Protect child labour, now more than ever!", ILO Cairo Office has developed in cooperation with the social partners a set of awareness materials on the negative impact of child labour and the measures that should be taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 infection at the workplace.
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Statement
International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture (IPCCLA) Statement
11 June 2020
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Video
Three famous brothers: The impact of COVID-19 on child labour
11 June 2020
Did you know that there are more than one million children working in Myanmar and some 152 million in child labour around the world? These children are at high risk when it comes to the economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Media advisory
ILO and UNICEF assess impact of COVID-19 crisis on child labour
10 June 2020
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Minimum Age
Myanmar ratifies the Minimum Age Convention
09 June 2020
Myanmar is the 173rd ILO Member State to ratify Convention No.138
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Article
Support the World Day Against Child Labour on social media!
25 May 2020
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Call to Action
COVID-19: ILO is joining UN SRSG on Violence against Children to call for action
27 April 2020
Following the Secretary General’s policy brief, the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence against Children has issued an Agenda for Action.
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The ILO ENHANCE Project
Tackling child labour in Viet Nam through vocational training and educational support
23 April 2020
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is implementing the Project "Enhancing National Capacity to Prevent and Reduce Child Labour in Viet Nam" (ENHANCE) to assist national level efforts to prevent child labour through awareness-raising, capacity building and direct interventions.
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Child labour
Vocational training transforms teenager from street vendor to apprentice in rural Viet Nam
23 March 2020
With ILO support, a 14-year-old boy receives life-changing vocational training, enabling him to find a route out of child labour and envision a brighter future for himself and his family.
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News
A new ILO training programme on activating agricultural cooperatives in the elimination of child labour piloted in Tanzania
17 March 2020
The new training programme was developed to strengthen the capacities of cooperatives as part of ILO’s projects on the elimination of child labour in multiple African countries.