All news: child labour + child workers

Realizing decent work for domestic workers in Asia region

Domestic workers organizations, trade unionists and relevant representatives from 11 Asian countries will attend the three-day Regional Meeting, aimed to share good and promising practices, examine lessons learned and develop future activities in...

News

Advancing human rights at work - A look back at 2017

2017 has been a significant year in advancing fundamental principles and rights at work. Working with governments, social partners and communities, the ILO FUNDAMENTALS Branch has helped those who cannot organize and bargain collectively, those...

News

Activities to eliminate child labour in seasonal hazelnut harvesting discussed in a stakeholders meeting

Activities carried out to eliminate child labour in hazelnut harvesting season of 2017 and implementation of relevant legislative arrangements were discussed in a meeting participated by national and local stakeholders

Child labour and forced labour

Uzbekistan ends systematic use of child labour and takes measures to end forced labour

An ILO team monitoring the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has found that child labour is no longer systematically used and that measures are being taken to end the use of forced labour. These conclusions were discussed at a roundtable in Tashkent.

Barbados joins Regional Initiative - Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour

Cooperating out of child labour in Malawi

In Malawi child labour is a persistent challenge. The recent estimates show that more than 2.1 million children, or about 38 per cent of Malawian children, continue to be involved in child labour. Most of these children are employed in the...

ILO and UNICEF join forces to tackle child labour in Syria

Both UN agencies stress the importance of integrating efforts against child labour in the early stages of rehabilitating livelihoods in communities that have suffered from conflict, displacement and other crisis situations.

News

ILO proposes policies to end child labour by 2025

A new ILO report says improving legal protections, labour market governance, social protections, access to quality education and social dialogue between governments, the social partners and other stakeholders are critical aspects in battling child...

Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

The international community agrees to redouble efforts to fight against child labour and forced labour

The three-day IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour concluded with the adoption of the Buenos Aires Declaration which spells out principles and actions to be taken. During the meeting, delegates presented almost 100...

Modern slavery and child labour: Asia’s unacceptable record

62 per cent of the victims of modern slavery and 40 per cent of the child labourers around the world are in Asia and the Pacific. Unacceptable forms of work call for unprecedented measures to combat them, says Tomoko Nishimoto, ILO Assistant...

Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

The international community agrees to redouble efforts to fight against child labour and forced labour

The three-day IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour concluded with the adoption of the Buenos Aires Declaration which spells out principles and actions to be taken. During the meeting, delegates presented almost 100...

Meetings in Tashkent

Discussions were held in Tashkent on 14th of November between the Minister of Employment and Labour Relations of Uzbekistan, Aktam Khaitov, and ILO Senior International Labour Standards and Labour Law Specialist, Lejo Sibbel.

Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

ILO head warns that there are still 152 million victims of child labour

In his opening speech to the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, the ILO Director-General acknowledged the progress achieved in the past 20 years, but warned that there is still a long way to go in order to eradicate...

Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

ILO proposes policies to end child labour by 2025

A new ILO report says improving legal protections, labour market governance, social protections, access to quality education and social dialogue between governments, the social partners and other stakeholders are critical aspects in battling child...

ILO opens new centre to combat child labour in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon

New initiative is one in a series of pioneering centres the ILO and its partners are establishing in a nationwide effort to step up the fight against child labour in Lebanon.

Media advisory

ILO Director-General Guy Ryder to attend child labour conference in Buenos Aires

Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

Argentina to host the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

The international meeting will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 14-16 November and will address the consolidation of the global commitment to the eradication of child labour. Governments, employers’ and workers’ representatives from 193...

ILO calls Commonwealth Youth to support the fight against forced labour and child labour

Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour

Accreditation open for the Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour in Argentina

“Festival Meetings 2017” concert series raising awareness about child labour

In support of the Music Against Child Labour Initiative, Milano Classica, in collaboration with the Milan network of middle schools specialising in music (SMIM), organised the third edition of the “Festival Meetings.” 12 concerts involving over 20...