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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.

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World Day Against Child Labour Event in Ordu

“World Day Against Child Labour” event held in Ordu in cooperation of ILO, MoLSS and Ordu Governorship

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Kyrgyzstan: Looking for digital solutions to combat child labour

The ILO in Kyrgyzstan partnered with young information technology (IT) specialists to find ways of applying innovative digital technologies to help monitor child labour.

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Poverty leads children from Madagascar to work in dangerous conditions

World Day Against Child Labour focuses this year on hazardous child labour and safe work for youth of legal working age. Almost half of the 152 million victims of child labour – 73 million – toil in hazardous work. In Madagascar, children in child...

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“Let the Shine of Progress against Child Labour not Tarnish”

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International Labour Organization Director General Guy Ryder: Join us in committing to urgent action to combat hazardous child labour!

“Children are more vulnerable to risk than adults. Urgent action is needed to ensure no child under the age of 18 is in hazardous child labour,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour

Caring Gold Mining Project: Commemorates World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL), 2018 in Ghana

The ILO through its ILO Caring Gold Mining Project, supports World Day against Child Labour (WDACL)-2018 activities in Ghana under the theme “Resist Child Labour! Improve the Safety and Health of Young Workers towards achieving SDG Goal8”.

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Myanmar: too many children still in hazardous and unsafe forms of work

Some 600,000 of the 1 million child labourers in the country are involved in hazardous work.

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Towards the urgent elimination of hazardous child labour

“Children are more vulnerable to risk than adults. Urgent action is needed to ensure no child under the age of 18 is in hazardous child labour,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour.

Towards the urgent elimination of hazardous child labour

“Children are more vulnerable to risk than adults. Urgent action is needed to ensure no child under the age of 18 is in hazardous child labour,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour.

End child labour and promote safe and healthy work!

World Day Against Child Labour is marked on 12 June. Its theme in 2018 is the devastating impact of hazardous forms of work on children’s long-term health and well-being

Empowerment through music: Lebanon’s choir against child labour

Children who have a history of child labour have embarked on a musical journey led by the ILO and Lebanon’s Ministry of Labour, and have taken their talents to Lebanon’s Presidential Palace for their first ever performance.

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We must tackle the root causes of child labour: ILO Director-General

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder highlighted the importance of addressing the root causes of child labour, including in unpaid family work in agriculture. He spoke at a panel on child labour held on the sidelines of the International Labour Conference.

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National and local stakeholders gathered to end child labour in seasonal hazelnut agriculture

Provincial planning meetings and trainings on child labour monitoring mechanism took place in Ordu, Düzce, Sakarya and Şanlıurfa within the context of the Project “An Integrated Model for the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Seasonal...

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World Day Against Child Labour – Geneva event

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Message at the Generation Safe and Healthy Children’s Summit and Celebration of the World Day against Child Labour

By Khalid Hassan, Country Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, delivered by Ma. Concepcion Sardaña, Senior Programme Officer at the Generation Safe and Healthy Children’s Summit and Celebration of the World Day against Child Labour, 30...

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Philippines pioneers responsible and ethical gold brand in Fashion Week

The Philippines blazed the trail for responsible and ethical gold from artisanal and small-scale gold mines (ASGM) with the launch of the Compassionate Gold brand at the Philippine Fashion Week. The Compassionate Gold is among the innovative...

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Keynote address at the Philippine Fashion Week

By Khalid Hassan, Country Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, delivered by Hideki Kagohashi, Enterprise Development Specialist at the Philippine Fashion Week, 26 May 2018, Makati, Philippines

EU/ILO/Mongolia Project on “Sustaining GSP-Plus Status by Strengthened National Capacities to Improve ILS Compliance and Reporting-Mongolia...

Ulaanbaatar/Mongolia (ILO News) – The ILO, government agencies, Mongolian Employers’ Federation (MONEF), Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions (CMTU) and labour right advocates gathered today to discuss their joint action on forced labour, child...

National Consultations on Forced Labour in Kyrgyzstan

The issues of ensuring decent work in Kyrgyzstan free of coercion and exploitation were at the heart of the conference “World of Work in Kyrgyzstan: National Consultations on Forced Labour. Challenges and Prevention Measures”, held on May 18 in...