BANGKOK – A global report providing new estimates of the number of child labourers worldwide and regionally, and analyzing progress to date in the struggle against child labour, is to be released on 4 May by the International Labour Office (ILO).

The report, entitled “The end of child labour: Within reach”* is to be launched on 4 May at a wide range of events globally, including the ILO’s American Regional Meeting in Brasilia, Brazil with ILO Director-General Juan Somavia.

In Bangkok the report will be launched under embargo at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand (FCCT), Maneeya Centre, 518/5 Ploenchit Rd , Patumwan, Bangkok , on Thursday 4^th May at 11am.

The report and all associated media and information materials are under embargo and not for publication, broadcast or quotation before 1400 GMT on Thursday, 4 May.

The report has been prepared by the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and provides the most recent and wide-ranging assessment currently available on the extent of child labour and international efforts to stop it.

Four years ago the ILO provided the first global report allowing a reliable assessment of the child labour situation and calling for the creation of an effective strategy to stop child labour. This year’s report will present a new global agenda, building on lessons learned over the past years to achieve further progress in the elimination of child labour.

The report will be available to the media in hard copy and PDF format through ILO offices. An executive summary of the report will be available in Arabic, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. A press release will be available from Tuesday 2 May under the above embargo.

Video news releases and file footage on child labour in different regions of the world are available to broadcasters. Please contact the ILO Department of Communication, Radio & TV unit in Geneva (+41 22 799.6290/7935, or email TV_RADIO@ilo.org) or the Public Information Section, ILO Bangkok (+66 2288 2202, fisher@ilo.org,).

Interviews with child labour experts and a list of child labour contacts are available via the ILO Department of Communication. For more information, please contact the Department of Communication:

Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

Sophy Fisher: +66 22882482


Krisdaporn Singhaseni:  +66 2288 1664
  

ILO Headquarters, Geneva

General contact: +41-22-799.7912

Tom Netter (chief, media): +41-22-799.7973

Hans von Rohland (English and German desk): +41-22-799.7916

Laetitia Dard (French desk): +41-22-799.8272
 

Luis Cordova (Spanish)

* The end of child labour: Within reach, Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, report to the International Labour Conference, 95th Session 2006

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