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Malawi’s Tripartite Labour Advisory Council deliberates on child labour

Lilongwe, 21 September 2020 – The Honourable Ken Kandodo, M.P. Malawi’s Minister of Labour, opened a meeting of the country’s Tripartite Labour Advisory Council (TLAC) on Thursday 17 September 2020 stating that: “The role of the Tripartite Labour...

Malawi’s Tripartite Labour Advisory Council deliberates on child labour

“The meeting gives employers great confidence in the Minister’s leadership. Social dialogue is the bedrock of labour and employment. When social dialogue takes place reliably and consistently, this can contribute greatly to the development of the...

Baluchistan cabinet approves ban on bonded labour

Case study

It takes a village: The community saving scheme transforming children’s lives in Myanmar

It was in 2017, in a small village in the Ayeyarwady region of Myanmar, that 45-year-old Naw Thawri’s life took a terrible turn. Her husband passed away and she found herself alone – a widow with four children and no source of income to support her...

Saved from the Shackles of Child Labour

Iveta started working at the age of 15 as a domestic worker, with a salary that could not support herself and her family. The ILO enabled her to get out of child labour and learn some tailoring skills. Today, she is building a modern house for...

ILO And NECA Collaborate To Eliminate Child Labour In Nigeria

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) have agreed to collaborate to accelerate progress on the elimination of Child Labour in the Cocoa and Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM)...

The Public-Private Partnership to Combat Child Labour Grows Further

Online informative meeting held for social support workers of hazelnut companies

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ILO Child Labour Convention achieves universal ratification

All 187 member States of the International Labour Organization (ILO) have ratified the ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182).

ILO Child Labour Convention achieves universal ratification

COVID-19 and child labour

Combating increased exploitation of children during the COVID-19 pandemic

In conjunction with the commemoration of the National Children’s Day, relevant stakeholders, with support from the ILO, discussed intensified efforts to stop the exploitation of children in the country.

Myanmar gears up to implement minimum working age convention

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population (MoLIP), together with the International Labour Organization (ILO), UNICEF, and Myanmar workers and employers’ organisations, and child protection civil society organizations today have come...

ILO COOP 100 Interview

Hans Lind, Interim Country Representative for Colombia and Senior Advisor on Cooperative Development at We Effect

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

ILO and RDPP launch a partnership to combat worst forms of child labour in Iraq

The new partnership aims to tackle the worst forms of child labour amongst internally displaced persons, Syrian refugees and vulnerable host community members in Iraq.

The way for sustainable solutions in the fight to eliminate the child labour discussed in the COVID-19 context

The summer season of the hazelnut harvest in the Black Sea region of Turkey will keep up with the new COVID-19 protective measures and dynamic support provided within the “An Integrated Model for the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFLC)...

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New report shows improvements across Viet Nam’s garment factories

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Parents send their children to child labour to overcome the economic crisis of COVID-19

In light of the increased number of children in child labour in agriculture as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, eliminating child labour requires coordinated action more than before. The ILO in consultation with the Egyptian Government and social...

COVID-19: Impact on child labour

ILO, UNICEF urge Malaysia to tackle child labour issue

In commemoration of the World Day against Child Labour, ILO, UNICEF and the Malaysian stakeholders discussed the impacts of COVID-19 on child labour and the means to address them.

World Day Against Child Labour

“I just want to go to school”: New Myanmar photo exhibitions offer powerful insights into the lives of children trapped in child labour

A six-year-old who begs at a Pagoda to buy medicine for her sick mother, so desperate to return to school that she often still wears her old school uniform. A fisherman who has worked on Or Khom lake since he was five years old. A girl who burns...

COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF

Millions more children risk being pushed into child labour as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, which could lead to the first rise in child labour after 20 years of progress, according to a new brief from the International Labour Organization (ILO)...

COVID-19 and child labour

Indonesia strengthen its efforts to combat child labour as an impact of the pandemic

To commemorate the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL), relevant national stakeholders examined ways to tackle the threat of COVID-19 to the increased child labour.