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COVID-19: Protecting workers in the workplace

Livelihoods of more than 55 million domestic workers at risk due to COVID-19

On the ninth anniversary of the adoption of the Domestic Workers Convention, new ILO estimates reveal the risks facing domestic workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 and child labour

The fight of child labour in Timor-Leste starts from the families

In conjunction with the commemoration of the World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL), the government of Timor-Leste called for the important role of the families in combating child labour, particularly during the pandemic.

COVID-19: Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!

Most ILO programmes implemented in African countries, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, are now taking accelerated action on protecting the health, jobs and incomes of workers. These interventions include a focus on more comprehensive social...

Employers Organizations

COVID-19: PROTECT CHILDREN FROM LABOUR NOW MORE THAN EVER. JOINT STATEMENT ON OCCASION OF WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR

The Employers Federation of Pakistan (EFP) and Pakistan Workers Federation (PWF) have unanimously decided to adopt a joint declaration on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2020

Op-Ed for World Day Against Child Labour 2020

“A time of crisis, a time to act”

"We will indeed take definitive action to ensure our future will be one that is absent of child labour". An opinion editorial by Ms Simrin Singh, Country Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

COVID-19 and child labour

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

Child labour down by 94 million since 2000, a gain now under threat.

World Day Against Child Labour 2020

Pope: We are all responsible for the scourge of child labour

Pope Francis appeals to the international community to protect the numerous boys and girls who are deprived of their childhood as they are forced into child labour.

Act now, to protect children from child labour!

Ms Dagmar Walter’s message on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour, 2020 for protecting children from COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.

World Day Against Child Labour – responding to COVID-19 in the Arab States

On the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO in the Arab States sheds light on key projects addressing child labour in the region, and measures taken in some countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In times of COVID-19, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are taking action to protect the most vulnerable from child labour...

COVID-19 presents unprecedented risks to the rights and safety and development of children. Many children in child labour are at risk of entering more hidden or hazardous forms of work or working longer hours. The crisis can also push millions of...

World Day Against Child Labour

Myanmar signs up to key international convention on minimum working age ahead of the World Day Against Child Labour

Amid COVID-19 crisis, ILO and UNICEF call to ‘Protect Children, Now More than Ever’

World Day Against Child Labour 2020

Viet Nam joins global campaign to confront intensified risk of child labour resulting from COVID-19

Malawi commemorates World Day Against Child Labour 2020

Malawi joins the work in commemorating World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) with a focus this year on the impact of COVID-19 on child labour, under the slogan: COVID-19: Protect Children from Child Labour, now more than ever!

World Day Against Child Labour 2020

Protect children from child labour, now more than ever!

Marking the World Day Against Child Labour 2020 under the theme of "Protect child labour, now more than ever!", ILO Cairo Office has developed in cooperation with the social partners a set of awareness materials on the negative impact of child...

Joint Statement by the ILO and UNICEF on World Day Against Child Labour in Iraq

World Day Against Child Labour

Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar issue a statement on World Day Against Child Labour (2020)

World Day Against Child Labour presents us with an important opportunity to stand united in the fight to end child labour. This year WDACL is drawing particular attention to the need to eliminate child labour and the impact of the Covid-19 health...

World Day Against Child Labour

Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (UMFCCI) issue a statement on World Day Against Child Labour (2020)

Our world today has changed significantly with many uncertainties. Especially in times like this, we must remain committed to creating a better tomorrow for our children, the future of our planet. We must nurture them, and invest in them, so that...

World Day Against Child Labour

Myanmar Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population issue a statement on World Day against Child Labour, 2020

As the saying ‘The youth of today are the future of tomorrow’, in the future, the duty to safeguard the sovereignty and to work for the development of the State will be delegated to youths of today. Youths grow up from infants and become adults and...

International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture (IPCCLA) Statement

Technical nota ECLAC-ILO

The crisis resulting from COVID-19 could cause a significant increase of child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean

An analysis by ECLAC and ILO highlights that the impacts of the pandemic could be the cause of more than 300,000 children and adolescents being obliged to work. This analysis considers it imperative to adopt measures to tackle this situation.