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A voice for women cotton workers in Pakistan
Former child labourer Hafeeza Mai leads a trade union in Pakistan, empowering women in the cotton sector to claim their rights, demand equal pay and protect their children from child labour.
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.
Addressing the Income–Child Labour–Gender Nexus in Global Value Chains
Why higher income doesn’t always reduce child labour: key findings and solutions from global experts on tackling the income–gender–child labour nexus in supply chains.
Ghana’s experience offers a pathway to ending child labour at scale
How can efforts to eliminate child labour move beyond isolated projects and deliver sustainable results at scale? - This question was at the centre of a global webinar held during the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, where...
Gender and child labour: ACCEL Africa’s Gender Lab at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour
At the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, ACCEL Africa contributed an interactive Gender Lab designed to highlight how gender inequalities shape child labour and access to opportunity.
Stepping into the cocoa fields at the Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour
At the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, delegates did not just discuss solutions, they experienced them, through an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) film produced by ACCEL Africa.
Marrakech Global Framework for Action urges scaled implementation to end child labour
The framework, adopted at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, aims to accelerate progress and reaffirms the importance of prioritizing the elimination of child labour in international sustainable development frameworks.
ILO launches "Child Labour Observatory", a new global hub to support evidence-based action
The new Child Labour Observatory (CLO) provides centralized country-level data, legal information and policy frameworks to support evidence-based action and accelerate progress towards the elimination of child labour worldwide.
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Child labour in Lebanon’s agricultural sector: Stories from Syrian refugee families
Filmed in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, this video documents the realities of child labour in the agricultural sector among Syrian refugee families. Through testimonies from children, parents and the ILO, it highlights the pressures that push children...
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From child labourer to skills trainer in the Philippines
As a child, Jestoni Go Padua worked making shoes to support his family. Jestoni recounts how he became a school instructor and now helps young people build skills for a better future and decent work.
Voices of Action - Child labour
A library in Argentina protects children from labour in informal settlements
Located near a waste-picking area in José León Suárez, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, a community library offers books, care, and a safe alternative to the streets and child labour.
Voices of Action - Child labour
In Peru, a mother’s decent job becomes her daughter’s path out of child labour
Guadalupe, a 15-year-old girl from Lima, managed to move away from child labour, a reality that still affects more than 600,000 children in Peru. Her story shows how the ILO’s strategies, from promoting decent work for adults to strengthening...
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From child labour to skilled work: Orifa Taiwo’s journey
Forced to drop out of school at the age of ten, Orifa Taiwo spent his childhood working on farms to help his family survive. Today, he is a tailor with his own shop and a renewed sense of purpose. In this first-person story, Orifa shares how the...
Voices of Action - Child labour
Farm work threatens Egyptian boy’s dream of becoming an engineer
Every dawn, 14‑year‑old Islam heads to the fields in rural Egypt to help feed his family. The long hours of agricultural labour leave him exhausted in the classroom and push him further from his dream of becoming an engineer — a dream he refuses to...
Nigeria strengthens capacity to analyse child labour data using Labour Force Survey evidence
A ten-day workshop in Nigeria strengthened national capacity to analyse child labour data using annual Nigeria Labour Force Survey data. Supported by the EU-funded FMM (West Africa) II Project and co-implemented by the ILO, the workshop was held in...
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...
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.
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ILO and Morocco spotlight new global conference and campaign on child labour
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Sewing, a new path for Aminata
This is the story of Coulibaly Aminata, 18, who recounts how sewing training supported by the ILO's ACCEL Africa project helped her overcome a difficult period in her childhood and build a professional future in Côte d'Ivoire. Discover her journey...
Voices of Action - Child labour
From hazardous work to school: How the Philippines is breaking the child labour cycle
In Bangsamoro's shadow of dump sites, children swap hazardous scavenging for education and family mushroom farms ahead of the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, paving paths to brighter futures.
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