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South-South Cooperation

ILO and Brazil seal new project to support the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean free of Child Labour

In the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, a renewed South-South cooperation partnership is essential to promote the exchange of knowledge and the improvement of public policies.

Child and forced labour

Systemic forced labour and child labour has come to an end in Uzbek cotton

Almost two million people are recruited every year for the annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. The country managed to accelerate the fight against child and forced labour during the 2020 cotton production cycle, according to a new ILO report.

Joint press release of the CBS, ILO and the UNICEF

Ending forced and child labour in Nepal’s brick industry - Need for a holistic approach

Joint press release on a new survey on employment relationship in the brick industry in Nepal.

International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour — beyond commitments to action

An interview with Ms. Cynthia Samuel-Olonjuwon, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Africa, on the occasion of the launch of the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, which took place on January 21, 2021.

Child labour

2021: International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

Child labour has decreased by 38 per cent in the last decade but 152 million children are still affected. The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably worsened the situation, but joint and decisive action can reverse this trend.

ILO Voices | Child labour

A song to let children fly

Sri Lankan music star Ridma Weerawardena talks about his hit song "Let them fly" and why he decided to join the fight against child labour.

ILO Voices | Child labour

Child labour in Myanmar’s jade mines is a deadly gamble

Min Min is 13 and scavenges for scraps of jade stone in northern Myanmar, “the land of jade”.  It’s a hazardous undertaking.  In 2020 nearly 200 people died from a mudslide at a nearby mining site.

ILO Voices | Skills for Youth

From prison to a better life

In Madagascar, Sergio was arrested and jailed when he was 16 for stealing vanilla. Thanks to vocational training he’s learned to be a bricklayer and no longer engages in petty crime.

Highlighting continued efforts for elimination of child labour in the sports goods industry

The Employers Federation of Pakistan in collaboration with the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry conducted seminars to showcase efforts for elimination of child labour in the sports goods industry. The stakeholders committed to continue the...

Q&A

Universal protection against the worst forms of child labour

In 2020, for the first time in the ILO’s history, an International Labour Standard achieved universal ratification, with acceptance by all 187 Member States. Universal ratification of ILO Convention No. 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour (1999)...

Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados labour officials learn best practices for eliminating child labour

Innovative techniques offered through seminar series delivered by ILO and South-South partners

2nd National Child Labour Survey

Viet Nam’s child labour rate lower than region’s average by 2 percentage points

Latest survey undertaken in 2018 finds more than 1.7 million children participating in economic activities across Viet Nam, among whom more than 1 million are engaged in child labour.

ILO and ECAM collaborate to fight child labour in Malawi

The new action programme will see ECAM establish a National Employer Taskforce Against Child Labour, promote child labour elimination policies and practices across the private sector, and facilitate more and better Corporate Social Responsibility...

ILO ACCEL Africa supports Better Work on mainstreaming child labour in Egypt

The collaboration between the two projects resulted in the establishment by the MOM of a new Trade Union Grievance Committee to facilitate trade unions’ registration process. A ministerial decree is issued by MOM to institutionalize the Committee.

New partnership between the Government of Norway and the International Labour Organization to improve working conditions in Malawi’s...

This new project is well aligned to the strategic priorities of development cooperation between Norway and Malawi, which include a focus on the agriculture sector and respect for human rights, as well as with Norway’s global development cooperation...

Cote d’Ivoire: the ILO supports the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection in the fight against child labour in Cocoa and Gold supply...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in Supply Chains in Africa (ACCEL AFRICA) project supports the Government of Cote d’Ivoire in strengthening the implementation of its Child Labour...

Accel Africa Supports Integration of Child Labour Survey into the National Household Survey EMOP

The new survey will measure for the first time in Mali the prevalence and extent of child labor based on the new resolution on child labor statistics aimed at harmonizing international statistical standards for the identification (and...

Uganda holds its Alliance 8.7 National Strategic Planning Workshop

The Alliance 8.7 Supply Chains Action Group held its second Strategic Workshop from 14 to 15 May 2019 in Abidjan, Cote d’ Ivoire.

The second strategic workshop of the Alliance 8.7 Supply Chains Action Group was organized in Abidjan on 14 and 15 May 2019 under the patronage of the First Lady of Côte d'Ivoire with funding from the governments of the Netherlands (through the...

Case study

Safety first: Adapting the ILO’s child labour response in the face of COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Selim Benaissa’s first thought was of vulnerable children. As the ILO’s Chief Technical Advisor for the Myanmar Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, he has seen firsthand that poverty is a major factor...