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ILO and UNICEF assess impact of COVID-19 crisis on child labour

Minimum Age

Myanmar ratifies the Minimum Age Convention

Myanmar is the 173rd ILO Member State to ratify Convention No.138

ILO and JICA Co-organize Online Study Session on Child Labour and Business

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly organised an online study Session on Child Labour and Business on how to strengthen the collaboration in the area of child labour in order to...

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Obituary – Norbert Blüm

Ghana Study Tour: An opportunity to learn and share knowledge on the gold supply chain

My name is Silvia Possenti and I work as Supply Chain and Enterprises Officer for the Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in Supply Chains in Africa (ACCEL Africa), an International Labour Organization (ILO) project at the...

Call to Action

COVID-19: ILO is joining UN SRSG on Violence against Children to call for action

Following the Secretary General’s policy brief, the UN Inter-Agency Working Group on Violence against Children has issued an Agenda for Action.

Fight child labour amid Covid19 in Uganda

Child labour in Uganda manifests in different communities sometimes hidden underneath the pretext of preparing children for a productive adulthood. According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), child labour is defined as work that...

The ILO ENHANCE Project

Tackling child labour in Viet Nam through vocational training and educational support

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is implementing the Project "Enhancing National Capacity to Prevent and Reduce Child Labour in Viet Nam" (ENHANCE) to assist national level efforts to prevent child labour through awareness-raising,...

Activities on Ending Child Labour in Seasonal Agriculture Organized in İstanbul and Şanlıurfa

Within the framework of “An Integrated Model for the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Seasonal Agriculture in Hazelnut Harvesting in Turkey Project”* jointly implemented by International Labour Organization and the Ministry of Family,...

Child labour

Vocational training transforms teenager from street vendor to apprentice in rural Viet Nam

With ILO support, a 14-year-old boy receives life-changing vocational training, enabling him to find a route out of child labour and envision a brighter future for himself and his family.

A new ILO training programme on activating agricultural cooperatives in the elimination of child labour piloted in Tanzania

The new training programme was developed to strengthen the capacities of cooperatives as part of ILO’s projects on the elimination of child labour in multiple African countries.

Child labour

ILO supports development of handbooks to fight child labour

To enhance the awareness and capacity of stakeholders implementing international labour commitments related to child labour in supply chains, a handbook is being developed with support from the ENHANCE Project.

Child labour

Government to upgrade child labour data software with ILO support

The new system which will help to effectively monitor child labour situation in Viet Nam will be in place by the end of April.

50 representatives from Government and Social partners gather to address decent work deficits in the tobacco sector in Tanzania.

Participants to propose a three years programme to address the decent work deficits in the country

Following international child labour conference in the Netherlands, Jessie Chingoma plans to advocate for increased public funding for...

My name is Jessie Chingoma and I work as the Deputy Director of the Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MTCU), a national trade union centre that promotes the growth of the trade union movement in Malawi. MCTU currently has more than two dozen...

Training of Trainers on Start.Coop is carried out towards building a sustainable vanilla sector in Madagascar

Twenty trainers were trained on the Start.Coop training modules and methodologies as part of an ILO project to advance decent work and fight against child labour in the vanilla sector in Madagascar.

Child labour

Students in Hanoi speak out against child labour through artistic expression

Students in Hanoi raise awareness on child labour through drama performances as part of the programme, Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, Arts and the Media (SCREAM), which is being implemented across the country with support from ILO.

We will be able to document MDG indicator 8.7 on child and forced labour in Mali.

Amadou Kone participated in the training on the analysis of data on child and forced labour in Abidjan, where he had the opportunity to share his experience in the design and processing of nationwide surveys including: the design of collection...

ILO and Uzbekistan: cooperation that goes beyond child labour and forced labour

Uzbekistan’s ability to create enough decent jobs will be the key factor to enable and sustain the ongoing reform process. This was stated by the participants of the roundtable “Sustaining reforms through decent work” held on 5 February in Tashkent.