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Message at the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)

By Mr Khalid Hassan, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), 8 July 2022, Cotabato, Philippines

Better Work Jordan urges CSOs, media to strengthen workers’ voices

Programme, civil society organisations, and media outlets discuss working condition and compliance in the garment sector

ILO Deputy Regional Director for Arab States discusses with the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour in Yemen the opportunities to promote...

Liberia ratifies the Equal Remuneration Convention and the Minimum Age Convention

Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Key note address at the Fiji Enterprise Engine 2022 Business Accelerator Programme Launch

By Matin Karimli, Director ILO Office for the Pacific Island Countries at the Fiji Enterprise Engine 2022 Business Accelerator Programme Launch

Message at the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour culminating activity

By Ms Ma. Concepcion Sardaña, Senior Programme Officer, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the 2022 World Day Against Child Labour culminating activity, 27 June 2022, Manila, Philippines

Trade union capacity building

Indonesian trade unions enhance their capacity to promote collective bargaining and dispute resolution in palm oil sector

The ILO through its Advancing Workers’ Rights in Indonesia and Malaysia’s Palm Oil Sector project enhances the capacity of trainers and branch leaders of the national trade union confederations and their federations to improve conditions of work and...

Egypt celebrates the World Day Against Child Labour with a solid commitment to supporting eradicating the worst form of Child Labour in the...

The ACCEL Africa project, in collaboration with the Ministry of Manpower of Egypt, organized an event to commemorate the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL).

Launch of the ITEF Platform: a private sector initiative supported by the ACCEL Africa project to strengthen the engagement and efforts in...

The ITEF platform aims to advocate with public authorities on the expectations of the private sector and contribute to the reporting system, particularly in the context of the ILO standards. The purpose is to position Côte d'Ivoire as a responsible...

ILO supports the launch of Indonesia’s first Trade Unions’ Network in the Fishing Sector

The 8.7 Accelerator Lab programme together with the Bureau of Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) supported the launch of a Trade Unions’ Network in the fishing sector aiming to foster a common voice between trade unions and to reinforce bilateral and...

Stratégie de Scolarisation Accélérée (SSA/P) Passerelle in Mali: children beneficiaries of 8-12 years old are reintegrated in the formal...

Accelerated Schooling Strategy – or Stratégie de Scolarisation Accélérée (SSA/P) Passerelle

World Day Against Child Labour

A greater access to social protection is needed to prevent children from child labour in Timor-Leste

The commemoration of the World Day Against Child Labour in Timor-Leste is marked with the launch of the joint ILO and UNICEF research on key driver of child labour and the urgent call for the adoption of the Child Labour National Action Plan.

World Day Against Child Labour

Rally in Diet Encourages an End to Child Labour

Stakeholders of the Mali mining sector got together to discuss the implementation of the CRAFT Code as a tool to promote the elimination of...

The CRAFT Code, developed by Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) and RESOLVE, is designed to help both upstream and downstream players in the value chain assess critical social and environmental risks, with a specific focus on empowering artisanal...

World Day Against Child Labour 2022

ILO Myanmar calls for more action to end child labour

This World Day Against Child Labour on June 12, taking place shortly after the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, ILO Myanmar calls to accelerate multi-stakeholder efforts to prevent and eliminate child labour, with priority...

Child labour

ILO supports child labour e-learning programmes in Fijian schools

A partnership of the ILO Office for Pacific Island Countries and the Fiji Ministry of Employment, Productivity & Industrial Relations

On this World Day Against Child Labour, ILO and UNICEF call for joint work among all stakeholders to create a protective and inclusive...

Universal social protection to end child labour

Key note address at the World Day against Child Labour 2022

By Matin Karimli, Director ILO Office for the Pacific Island Countries at the World Day against Child Labour 2022

World Day Against Child Labour 2022

Fight against child labour is at a crossroads

In his statement for World Day Against Child Labour 2022, International Labour Organization Director-General, Guy Ryder, warns the choices made by governments now will make or break the lives of millions of children. He says social protection is one...

ILO Voices | Child labour

I had to stop school and go to work because of COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the city of Mosul in Iraq, Akram’s parents lost their income and livelihood. Akram dropped out of school to help support his family by collecting and selling scrap metal. An ILO project has helped him return to...