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Child Labour

ILO, the Netherlands to take joint action against child labour

New partnership focuses on global supply chains in agriculture and mining.

Our impact, their voices

I escaped child labour and can now help others

On the eve of International Week of the Deaf we profile a deaf Zambian man who, with ILO help, escaped child labour and discrimination and built a successful career as a teacher in the US.

International Labour Standards

Cook Islands ratifies two ILO Conventions

The Government of Cook Islands has deposited with the International Labour Office the instruments of ratification for two ILO Conventions: C144 on the Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) and C182 on the Worst Forms of Child...

Value Chain Analysis: Joint Project for Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Kyrgyzstan

The JIA Business Association and the International Labour Organization are joining efforts to implement a pilot project in Kyrgyzstan to empower vulnerable families and eliminate the worst forms of child labour.

Child and forced labour

ILO continues rigorous monitoring of Uzbekistan cotton harvest

A statement in response to a report by Lasslett and Gstrein on the monitoring of Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest.

"We have seven years left to keep our commitment to the end of child labour"

Remarks by Ms Tomoko Nishimoto, ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, for Malaysia’s World Day against Child Labour 2018.

Sustainable Development Goals High on Trade Union Agenda

In June – August 2018, the Trade Union Federation of Kyrgyzstan (TUFK) with support of the International Labour Organization held workshops across the country on the role and policies of Kyrgyz trade unions in achieving sustainable development goals...

Kyrgyz Youth Join Red Card to Child Labour Global Campaign

Participants to the Third Youth Education Camp “Zhazh Bulak” joined the Red Card to Child Labour global campaign launched for the first time back in 2012 under a joint initiative of the International Labour Organization and International Federation...

Armenia: How Trade Unions should Respond to Informal Economy

The training and research centre of the Trade Union Confederation of Armenia and the ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia organised in Tsakhkadzor a workshop entitled “Informal Economy: Strategy for Trade Unions and Cooperation with Labour...

Families Empowered to Start Business to Free Children from Hard Work

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is helping the local governments in Osh and Kara-Suu District of the Osh Region to introduce child labour monitoring as part of the efforts to implement the Regulation on identification of children and...

International labour standards

Free trade deal with EU calls on Viet Nam to ratify remaining fundamental labour standards

ILO’s fundamental conventions provide for rights that should enable labour market actors in Viet Nam to decide on and support the adjustments to labour market governance necessitated by trade liberalization.

News

Vocational and Technical Training Courses Have Started at Gaziantep

Under the Project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls and Host Communities” vocational and technical training courses on basic life skills and labour market skills started at SADA Women Development and Solidarity Centre.

Unveiling slavery

American humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine discusses her work over the past 30 years documenting indigenous cultures and social issues such as modern slavery.

Visit of Trade Union Federation of Uzbekistan to ILO Headquarters in Geneva

Cooperation between Uzbekistan and the International Labour Organization is progressing. This opinion was voiced as a delegation of Uzbekistan’s Trade Union Federation visited the ILO Headquarters in Geneva.

Mega event to mark the World Day against Child Labour-2018

The EU funded project ‘Sustaining strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting in relevant EU trading partners’ supported Employers’ Federation of Pakistan (EFP) and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Department of Labour in...

Meta-analysis report

ILO African Regional Office and FUNDAMENTALS branch consolidate learning from independent evaluations of child labour programmes and...

In order to contribute to organisational learning and to provide guidance to ILO constituents and relevant stakeholders, the ILO African Regional Office and FUNDAMENTALS branch conducted a meta-analysis of independent final evaluations of 14 ILO...

Decent Work

Businesses re-affirm their commitment to promote decent work in supply chains

On 28th June, the 2nd Business Round Table on Promoting Decent Work and Fundamental Rights in Value Chains was convened under the aegis of Child Labour Platform . Stakeholders affirmed their commitment to promote decent work in supply chains by ...

Child labour

National alliance key to fight child labour in Viet Nam

A national forum calls on the legal framework to be expanded to the informal economy where the majority of child labourers are found.

Day of the African Child 2018

ILO, FAO offer free course on elimination of child labour in agriculture

The 2018 theme of the Day of the African Child is “Leave No Child Behind for Africa’s Development.” Speedy inter-institutional action remains essential to achieving SDG 8.7 in the continent.

World Day Against Child Labour

Football match to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in Egypt

The ILO Cairo Office celebrated the World Day Against Child Labour on 13 June 2018 with a musical entertainment performance for the children followed by a football match.