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Forthcoming report: Handbook on the detection of forced labour in fishing

Existing guidance on forced labour detection has focussed in large part on land-based work settings, rather than on the highly specific and unique challenges to the detection of those in forced labour situations at sea.

Forthcoming reports: Vulnerability paper series

Identifying particularly vulnerable groups of children and their specific needs is essential for the elimination of child labour. Article 7 of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 – the...

Skills training and financial empowerment: The antidote to child labour in India

The ILO’s MAP16 project adopted a Convergence Model to empower rescued child labour and their families, socially and economically.

From the fields to the classroom: Oumou's dreams come true

Gender equality

Collective efforts needed for gender equality at work

100 DIFE female labour inspectors pledge for change.

ILO organizes Capacity Building Training for MoLSS Staff

With the training program, it is aimed to raise awareness on child labour in seasonal agriculture among stakeholders, individuals and organizations and to develop the capacity to coordinate, plan, implement and monitor policies for the prevention of...

Belize newest country to join Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour

The signing by Belize comes 19 days ahead of World Day Against Child Labour (12 June) and at a time when the estimated number of children participating in child labour in the Caribbean stands at 1.1 million.

Bangladesh, ILO and the EU and its Member States reaffirm their commitment to advancing decent work in the country

Partners agree new development project to improve decent work opportunities as well as to strengthen business sustainability and competitiveness.

Daniel Berruezo, Secretary of Labour of Salta

From experiencing child labour to implementing public policies to eradicate it

Since he was seven years old he worked in tobacco crops. Today, Daniel Berruezo is the head of the Rosario de Lerma delegation of the Secretariat of Labour of the province of Salta. His personal experience is present in the responsibilities he...

From Education to Empowerment: How McLeod Russel Uganda Limited is Supporting the Fight Against Child Labour in the Tea Industry

McLeod Russel Uganda Limited (MRUL) is a tea growing, manufacturing, and exporting established in Uganda. The company owns six tea estates in the country: Bugambe and Kisaru Tea Estates in Kikuube District, Muzizi Tea Estate in Kagadi District,...

AUC-ILO Africa Forum on Child Labour

Harnessing Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives to address Child Labour

The AUC-ILO Forum, that hosted thirty AU’s member states from the different sub-regions in Africa, had as main objective to support the implementation of the African Union’s “Ten Year Action Plan to Eradicate Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human...

ILO delivers training courses on combating child labour to hazelnut-producing enterprises

ILO aims to raise awareness on child labour through capacity-building training for the field staff of hazelnut-producing enterprises

Jimena Álvarez Parma, labour inspector in the province of Salta

"A better articulated work can help us achieve more rights for children and adolescents"

Jimena Álvarez Parma is an inspector for Salta’s provincial field agency of the National Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security) in Salta. Since her youth she has been interested in promoting labour rights. Her experience as a model at...

Lidia Fernández, member of COPRETI Buenos AIres

A mapping of child labour risks and the collective possibilities to eradicate child labour

Lidia is an operator of the action node of the Comisión Provincial por la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil (COPRETI) of the province of Buenos Aires in El Peligro (La Plata). Together with the families of the neighborhood, she participated in a...

Juan Brasesco, former COPRETI official

"Punitive strategies are not adequate for addressing child labour"

The former official of the Comisión Provincial para la Erradicación del Trabajo Infantil (COPRETI) of Buenos Aires puts into context the joint work with the project "Offside: ¡Marcando la cancha!" of ILO Argentina in the development of an...

Mobile phones, digital training and financial education to address child labour in rural West Africa

The power of technology is being harnessed in Mali to deliver free audio messages on child labour, including new content specifically relating to financial education, to address one of the major root causes of child labour: poverty. The financial...

Experts discuss Brazilian strategies for collecting and analysing data on child labour

The event brought together specialists from Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and the ILO.

Florencia Lance, from INTA Argentina

"If there is child labour, public policies are missing"

The head of the Red de Abordaje Institucional con Pueblos Indígenas of the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) talks about the construction of a joint agenda with the ILO for the prevention of child labor in rural areas.

ILO delivers training courses on combating child labour to the field staff of the FERRERO Farming Values Programme

Training aims enhancing the knowledge and experience of the staff in combating child labour in the hazelnut supply chain.

Yaneth Dávila, rural producer of Florencio Varela

"Improving the economic conditions of rural women reduces the risk of child labour"

Yaneth Dávila is an agroecological family farmer who lives in Florencio Varela, province of Buenos Aires. She participated in a training course on financial education for the rural economy, organized by ILO Argentina and the Ministry of Labour of...