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Day 4: 108th International Labour Conference - Thematic Forum

Forum calls for stepped-up action to end child labour

The struggle against child labour was the focus of a wide-ranging debate at the International Labour Organization’s annual conference, which this year marks the ILO’s Centenary.

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Zambian Children Call for a Stop to Child Labour

The 2019 World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) was commemorated under the theme: ‘Children should not work in the fields, but on dreams’. In Zambia, multitudes of youths assembled at Lusaka’s Olympic Youth Development Centre to mark the day.

108th International Labour Conference - Thematic Forum

We must work together and scale up our action to end child labour

ILO Director-General’s opening address to the first Thematic Forum held at the 108th International Labour Conference.

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Community action to fight child labour

By working with local communities an ILO project in Bangladesh has succeeded in removing 2,000 children from child labour.

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Out of the mines and into school

An ILO project in Ghana’s artisanal mining communities is helping to reduce child labour and open up opportunities for education for vulnerable children.

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World Day Against Child Labour sheds light on working children in Jordan’s agricultural sector

ILO Jordan holds events for children working on farms to highlight importance of education on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour.

EU, FAO and ILO unite to end child labour in agriculture

Uzbekistan: World Day against Child Labour Celebrated in Youth Summer Camp

On June 12, 2019, the Barkamol youth summer camp celebrated the World Day against Child Labour.

World Day against Child Labour: a Roundtable in Dushanbe

A round table to mark the World Day Against Child Labour was held on 12 June 2019 at the Conference Hall of the Statistic Agency under the President of Republic of Tajikistan.

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Tuvalu ratifies Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention

Tuvalu is the 186th Member State to have ratified Convention No. 182.

Op-Ed for World Day Against Child Labour 2019

“To be a child is to be a dreamer”

Not be breadwinners or burdened with adult responsibility. An opinion editorial by Ms Simrin Singh, Country Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

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Observing the World Day against Child Labour in Suva, Fiji

The ILO’s Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182) has achieved almost universal ratification by the ILO’s 187 member States, and the ratification rate of the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) is not far behind.

Children should work on their dreams, not on fields !

World Day Against Child Labour is marked on 12 June. Its theme in 2019 is children should work on their dreams, not on fields.

ILO calls actors to join the movement against child labour in Africa

On the Celebration of the World Day Against Child Labour, the International Labour Organisation calls actors and organisations to join and add their voices towards the acceleration of the worldwide movement against child labour.

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How we treat our children is a reflection of our societies and values

In a statement released for World Day Against Child Labour, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder urges Governments, workers and employers to make a final push to end child labour. Country Director of ILO Bangladesh, Tuomo Poutiainen spoke about the...

World Day Against Child Labour

How we treat our children is a reflection of our societies and values

In a statement released for World Day Against Child Labour, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder urges Governments, workers and employers to make a final push to end child labour.

World Day Against Child Labour

Child labour in Myanmar robs 1million children away from their aspirations

World Child Labour Day 2019: Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!

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Eritrea ratifies Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention

Eritrea is the 185th Member State to have ratified Convention No. 182.

Caring Gold Mining Project Marks World Day against Child Labour with a “Call to Action” in Ghana.

The Call to Action is an initiative of Stakeholders of the Caring Gold Mining Project, to reinforce the implementation of interventions to reduce child labour and working conditions in the project districts. It will mobilise action against child...

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining

Child labour in mining, poor working conditions take centre stage in inter-regional meeting

With the growing global movement to support just transition and formalization of artisanal and small-scale gold mines, the ILO brought together experts and global actors to address child labour and poor working conditions in an inter-regional...