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Child labour in its worst forms is work that is hazardous and can damage young people psychologically or physically. It involves slavery, trafficking into exploitative situations, debt bondage and other forms of forced labour, forced recruitment into armed conflicts, prostitution, pornography and other illicit activities and hazardous labour. The ILO estimates that there are 218 million child labourers globally and 126 million of them are in the worst forms of child labour.
By ratifying the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention 1999 (No. 182), governments commit to taking immediate action to prohibit and eliminate the worst forms of child labour. This Convention is enjoying the fastest pace of ratifications in the ILO's history since 1919. In parallel, the ILO Minimum Age Convention 1973 (No. 138) is setting forth a larger framework for the longer-term objective of the effective abolition of child labour, has also been receiving a surge in ratifications. The increase in ratification of these Conventions clearly demonstrates that support for the movement against child labour is growing very rapidly throughout the world.
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