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Honduras Shows a “Red Card” to Child Labour and Strengthens Measures in the Coffee Sector
OIT visibiliza los desafíos persistentes del trabajo infantil en sectores productivos clave como el café.

Honduras Shows a “Red Card” to Child Labour and Strengthens Measures in the Coffee Sector

The International Labor Organization (ILO), in coordination with stakeholders in the coffee sector, local authorities, and development partners, commemorated the World Day Against Child Labour in Honduras with a national event held in San Juan,...

Uganda strengthens community response to child labour
Child labour Uganda

Child Labour

Uganda strengthens community response to child labour

In Kalungu District, the CLEAR Supply Chains has successfully supported and strengthened an informal child protection structure to identify, monitor and resolve child labour in coffee producing communities. A total of 122 para-social workers were...

Community-based child labour monitoring and remediation in Uganda
Probation Facilities Uganda

Child Labour

Community-based child labour monitoring and remediation in Uganda

Child labour is a major challenge in Uganda’s rural coffee-growing communities, driven by poverty, household vulnerability, limited access to services, and weak education and protection systems. The CLEAR Supply Chains project – led by the...

Strengthening occupational health and safety: a key step toward preventing child labour in the Honduran coffee industry
por Tzvetomira Radoslavova, Especialista de la OIT en SST, en misión técnica en Honduras

Child Labour

Strengthening occupational health and safety: a key step toward preventing child labour in the Honduran coffee industry

The ILO-led CLEAR Supply Chains Project is empowering companies and cooperatives in Honduras’s coffee sector to prevent child labour through concrete strategies to be implemented throughout the supply chain.

Honduras Reaches Historic Consensus: CONETI Approves Key Reform to Protect Adolescents from Hazardous Work

Child Labour

Honduras Reaches Historic Consensus: CONETI Approves Key Reform to Protect Adolescents from Hazardous Work

La CONETI es el espacio de diálogo social idóneo donde representantes de Gobierno, empleadores, trabajadores y organizaciones de sociedad civil suman esfuerzos para prevenir y erradicar el trabajo infantil

Toward a Child Labor-Free Supply Chain: Honduras Trains Its Rural Youth in Specialized Coffee Processing
Jóvenes participantes en la formación técnica para jóvenes denominada “Prestador de Servicios de Manejo Agronómico del Cultivo del Café”.

Child Labour

Toward a Child Labor-Free Supply Chain: Honduras Trains Its Rural Youth in Specialized Coffee Processing

The ILO-led CLEAR Supply Chains Project is working to increase opportunities for decent work for adults and young workers in the coffee value chain to prevent child labour.

Honduras' coffee sector strengthens its capacity to implement due diligence and prevent child labour
Taller sobre Debida Diligencia Empresarial para Prevenir el Trabajo Infantil en la Cadena de Suministro del Café

CLEAR Supply Chains Project

Honduras' coffee sector strengthens its capacity to implement due diligence and prevent child labour

El Proyecto CLEAR Supply Chains liderado por la OIT está empoderando a empresas y cooperativas del sector café de Honduras para prevenir el trabajo infantil con estrategias concretas a implementar a lo largo de la cadena de suministro.

European Union highlights that complementarity between implementing agencies has been key to advancing towards more responsible supply...
Representantes de la Delegación de la Unión Europea en Honduras realizaron una misión de seguimiento en los departamentos de Copán, Lempira e Intibucá para constatar avances del Proyecto CLEAR Supply Chains

CLEAR Supply Chains Project

European Union highlights that complementarity between implementing agencies has been key to advancing towards more responsible supply...

Representatives of the European Union Delegation in Honduras carried out a follow-up mission in the departments of Copán, Lempira, and Intibucá to assess the progress of the CLEAR Supply Chains Project, an initiative co-financed by the European...

Tourism boom exposes child labour risks in Viet Nam’s northern highlands
A young ethnic minority girl walks uphill on a rocky, fog-covered mountain trail, carrying a backpack, with adult trekkers following behind her.

Voices of Action - Child labour

Tourism boom exposes child labour risks in Viet Nam’s northern highlands

Children from ethnic minority communities like 13-year-old Phang Ca work on perilous trails popularized by adventure tourism to help support their families.

Strengthening coffee farming communities in Viet Nam to prevent child labour
CLEAR Supply Chain in Viet Nam

Child labour

Strengthening coffee farming communities in Viet Nam to prevent child labour

When what seems normal can still carry child labour risks.

Viet Nam marks 25 years of action to eliminate the worst forms of child labour
Participants at the anniversary

Child labour

Viet Nam marks 25 years of action to eliminate the worst forms of child labour

Viet Nam today commemorates 25 years since ratifying the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour - a landmark commitment to protect children from exploitation and uphold their rights.

Uganda steps up action against child labour
Child labour Uganda

Child Labour

Uganda steps up action against child labour

Hundreds of children in Kalungu District are being protected from child labour through a strengthened monitoring and remediation system led by local actors.

CLEAR Supply Chains project promotes safer workplaces in Uganda’s coffee sector through WIND training
Photo of a Workshop group

Child labour

CLEAR Supply Chains project promotes safer workplaces in Uganda’s coffee sector through WIND training

How can a participatory action-oriented training transform safety and health in Uganda’s coffee supply chain? For 56 trainers, the answer is clear: practical, community-driven solutions are key to lasting change. The Workplace Improvement in...

Occupational Health and Safety: A key strategy to prevent child labour
Group of people in a workshop

CLEAR Supply Chains project

Occupational Health and Safety: A key strategy to prevent child labour

A new ILO-led initiative is empowering Honduran coffee communities to tackle child labour at its roots, by making workplaces safer for adults and building hope for the next generation.

When communities take the lead in Uganda: Kalungu District's example in fighting child labour
Children with murals, Kalungu District, Uganda, June 2025.

World Day against Child Labour

When communities take the lead in Uganda: Kalungu District's example in fighting child labour

A world free from child labour might seem an ambitious dream, but in Kalungu District, Uganda, that dream is steadily becoming a tangible reality. By strengthening local systems and fostering deep community involvement, this region is demonstrating...

Honduras strengthens local action with new Child Labour Prevention Committee
Child Labour Prevention Committees (CPCTI) are community-based structures made up of trained local leaders

World Day against Child Labour

Honduras strengthens local action with new Child Labour Prevention Committee

Child Labour Prevention Committees (CPCTI) are community-based structures made up of trained local leaders who are equipped to identify, prevent, and respond to situations of child labour within their communities.

Building capacity to address child labour and occupational safety and health (OSH) in Uganda’s coffee value chain
Officials of Kalungu and Masaka districts, representatives of Ministry of Agriculture and Labour, and NGOs participating at the ILO-FAO capacity building on child labour and OSH in Uganda’s coffee value chain, Masaka, Uganda.

Building capacity to address child labour and occupational safety and health (OSH) in Uganda’s coffee value chain

District officials in Uganda’s coffee-growing regions are boosting their capacity to combat child labour and promote occupational safety and health (OSH) in the coffee value chain, with support from the ILO and FAO under the CLEAR Supply Chains...

Honduras takes a key step toward establishing a Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System in the coffee sector
ILO team together with representatives of the Delegation of the European Union in Honduras, FAO, UNICEF, ITC, companies linked to the Platform against Child Labor (CLP) and officials from different State Secretariats related to the issue. Tegucigalpa, 2025.

Child Labour

Honduras takes a key step toward establishing a Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System in the coffee sector

A Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) is an active and structured process aimed at identifying, preventing, and remediating child labour at the local level.

The CLEAR Supply Chains project was present at CAFEXPO Honduras 2025
CLEAR Supply Chains project staff explaining the inter-agency management model to a member of COAQUIL coffee cooperative. San Pedro Sula, Honduras, 2025.

The CLEAR Supply Chains project was present at CAFEXPO Honduras 2025

CAFEXPO, the first national coffee event in Honduras, held on March 21 and 22 in San Pedro Sula, featured the participation of key coffee sector actors.

Training of trainers for coffee farmers under the Women’s Leadership and Empowerment Programme (WLEP) in Kalungu district, Uganda
Mrs. Visencia Walugembe of Busoga Cooperative Society in Kyamulibwa sub-county Kalungu district tending to her coffee garden. Uganda, 2024.

CLEAR Supply Chains project in Uganda

Training of trainers for coffee farmers under the Women’s Leadership and Empowerment Programme (WLEP) in Kalungu district, Uganda

The CLEAR Supply Chains project trained female coffee famers in Kalungu district, in Uganda, on women’s leadership and empowerment.