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Zambia targets end to Child Labour with new national action plan

Zambia is stepping up efforts to end child labour, as Government and partners, with ILO support, review progress and develop a new National Action Plan (NAP III) to drive stronger, results-focused action to protect children’s rights and future.

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...

ILO and European Union launch project to promote decent work and prevent child and forced labour in Turkmenistan

EU-funded ILO project will support national efforts to strengthen labour standards and address child labour and forced labour with a focus on the cotton sector.

Press release

ILO and Responsible Minerals Initiative partner to address child labour in mineral supply chains

Agreement will align efforts to support stronger private-sector action on prevention, due diligence and remediation.

Ghana becomes an Alliance 8.7 pathfinder country

Ghana has attained Alliance 8.7 Pathfinder Country status, marking an important step in national efforts to eliminate child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery.

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

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.

Côte d’Ivoire strengthens the fight against child labour

A technical workshop was held to harmonize monitoring tools, strengthen data quality, and improve the planning of interventions against child labour, particularly in agricultural value chains.

Nigeria advances review of National Policy and Action Plan to eliminate child labour

The EU-funded FMM (West Africa) II Project and the ACCEL Africa II Project, financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, supported Nigeria’s review of two key documents on the elimination of child labour: the National Policy and...

ILO and Azerbaijan discuss child labour and international labour standards

The tripartite webinar explored practical approaches to child labour prevention, labour inspection and implementation of ILO standards in Azerbaijan.

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.

South Sudan Journalists Strengthened their Capacities to Report on Labour Migration with Depth and Accuracy

Labour migration in South Sudan is under-reported, often misunderstood, and rarely told from the perspective of the migrant workers themselves. A media roundtable in Juba aimed to change the starting point.

Media advisory

ILO Director General to strengthen partnerships for decent work in the Sahel

The Director-General of the ILO, Gilbert F. Houngbo, is embarking on a mission to the countries of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) from 5 to 15 April 2026. The aim is to strengthen partnerships to promote decent work, a cornerstone of stability...

Agriculture supply chains

Multi-stakeholder approach key to ending child labour in Telangana’s agriculture sector

Child Labour Platform (CLP) Programme launches the first state-level multi-stakeholder dialogue to tackle the root causes of child labour.

Interview

Q&A on Critical Minerals and the Work of the ILO

This interview explores the International Labour Organization's (ILO) work at the intersection of labor rights and the fast-growing critical minerals sector. In this Q&A with Casper N. Edmonds and Camila Meireles, two leading ILO experts discuss how...

Responsible business practices and gender equality

Japan-funded initiatives advance child labour elimination and formalisation in India

Japan delegation visits ILO projects advancing child labour-free supply chains, formalization and gender equality in India.

Gender equality

ILO–IBCWE digital campaign promotes gender equality and women’s leadership in Indonesia

Through digital outreach, the ILO and IBCWE promote equal opportunity and women’s leadership to tens of thousands of young Indonesian professionals and businesses.

Netherlands Ambassador visits ACCEL Africa’s areas of implementation in Côte d’Ivoire

The Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Côte d’Ivoire visited cocoa-growing communities in the Nawa region to observe initiatives supported under the ILO ACCEL Africa project. The visit highlighted efforts to strengthen livelihoods,...

Child labour

Climate-smart cocoa project funded by the Government of Japan helps tackle child labour in Ghana

The national closure event highlights how climate-smart agriculture and the Child Labour Free Zones approach can strengthen livelihoods and accelerate progress toward eliminating child labour in cocoa-growing communities.

Gender equality

Care burdens still hinder Indonesian women’s career advancement

Caring responsibilities remain main barrier to women’s career advancement in export sectors in Indonesia, ILO–IBCWE survey finds.