News
2013
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Video
Wagner Moura holds up the Red Card to child labour and joins ILO campaign
10 October 2013
The ILO announced its global campaign to stop child labour at the closing of the III Global Conference on Child Labour in Brasilia. Wagner holds up the Red Card with Cher, Tim Roth, Susan Sarandon, and other artists, athletes and activists. It is time for you to hold up yours!
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Third Global Conference on Child Labour
ILO launches global campaign to end child labour
10 October 2013
Hollywood actors and international athletes support the ILO's Red Card campaign.
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From the field
ILO Chief meets former child labourers in Cuiabá - Mato Grosso
09 October 2013
While in Brazil for the III Global Conference on Child Labour (Brasilia, 8-10 October 2013), ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, met with the beneficiaries of the "Me Encontrei" programme in Cuiabá, the capital city of the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso. The programme, supported by the ILO and local authorities, allows former child labourers to complete their education and receive training to enter the job market.
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Third Global Conference on Child Labour
ILO Director-General calls on countries to boost efforts to fight child labour
08 October 2013
“We see greater understanding that decent work for adults and youth of working age is a necessity if we are to ensure family incomes that do not rely on child labour – and in turn, that child labour undermines decent work and decent wages for adult workers,” says ILO chief Guy Ryder at the opening ceremony of the Third Global Conference on Child Labour.
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Statement
ILO Director-General's opening speech at the third Global Conference on Child Labour
08 October 2013
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News
SRSG Message at "The III Global Conference on Child Labour" in Brasilia, Brazil
08 October 2013
How can social protection policies identify, remove and assist children exposed to sexual exploitation, human trafficking, drug trafficking, forced labor and involvement in armed conflict?
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Brasilia
Highlights of the opening ceremony of the III Global Child Labour Conference
08 October 2013
Warning that the common goal to eliminate the worst forms of child labour will not be met by 2016 at the current rate of progress, ILO Director General Guy Ryder and Brazilian President Dilma Roussef urged delegates to redouble their efforts at the opening of the Third Global Conference on Child Labour . President Dilma Roussef joined him in calling for the commitment of all nations to eradicate child labour through coordinated and integrated action.
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Video
Brazilian artists hold up their Red Cards to Child Labour!
08 October 2013
To mark the III Global Conference on Child Labour in Brasilia (8-10 October), renowned Brazilian artists Wagner Moura, Camila Pitanga, Gilberto Miranda, Priscilla Camargo, Osmar Prado, Bete Mendes and Dira Paes team up with the ILO and its campaign to stop child labour now by holding up THEIR Red Cards. (in Portuguese with English subtitles)
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Comment by Guy Ryder
Child labour is no child’s play
08 October 2013
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Press release
ILO to participate in the third Global Conference on child labour in Brasilia
03 October 2013