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Statement

Federazione Nazionale Italiana delle Associazioni Regionali Corali (FENIARCO) - Statement of support

Worst forms of child labour

Battling commercial sexual exploitation of children in Madagascar

The ILO and the EU join forces in an innovative project which uses education to help kids build new lives.

Tackling child labour in Pakistan

A teacher like Baji

Rubina’s story was told by representatives of the Punjab Literacy Department attending the South Asia Labour Conference recently held in Lahore. They were there to emphasize the close links between literacy, education, skills, employment and income.

Press Release Decent Work Country Programme of Uzbekistan defines priorities for 2014-2016

The Government and social partners of Uzbekistan and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have signed a programme of technical cooperation for the three coming years.

Angola presents the Brasilia Declaration on combating child labour through South-South cooperation on behalf of the CPLP

International Labour Standards

Omar Faruk Osman: “The ratification of ILO core Conventions means a lot for the Workers of Somalia”

According to Omar Faruk Osman, the General Secretary of the Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU), by ratifying ILO Core Conventions on Freedom of Association (No.87)and Collective Bargaining (No.98), Somali workers were given the legal right...

Red Card Campaign

All together against child labour

The ILO launches the new edition of the Red Card to Child Labour Campaign on 12 June 2014. The campaign will bring together organizations, personalities and people from all walks of life who are committed to join the fight to eradicate child labour.

Somalia ratifies ILO Convention No. 182

Somalia ratification of the ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour has now been formally registered. This brings the total number of ratification of Convention No. 182 to 179, out of 185 ILO Member States.

ILO and ECOT organize a “Future and Current Business Leaders’ Summit” together in Bangkok on the 20th and 21st of March 2014 to connect...

Given the global reach of today’s supply chains, responsible business practices can have far reaching consequences. Management training systems and management education are crucial to ensuring that our future business leaders are equipped to handle...

Labour Standards

Somalia ratifies three fundamental ILO Conventions

Somalia ratifies the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98) and the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182)

Country survey

One in ten Vietnamese youngsters aged 5-17 in child labour

The first national data show that 1.75 million Vietnamese children are child workers. The rate of child labour in Viet Nam is lower than the world's average and very close to the regional figure.

Public private partnership

Event at ILO highlights business initiatives to tackle child labour

Domestic workers: The need to speed up change

Over the course of two years, Kartika Puspitasari, a 30-year-old Indonesian domestic worker, was assaulted by her Hong Kong employers, who would burn her with an iron and beat her with a bike chain. The trial judge called her treatment “cruel” and...

Conference on Child Labour brings ILO-IPEC partners and beneficiaries together to assess progress made in addressing child labour in...

On 3 – 4 April 2014, over 200 representatives from Royal Thai Government, private sector, workers organizations and NGOs and their child beneficiaries gathered at a National Policy Forum on protection of Thai and migrant children from child labour...

Worst Forms of Child Labour

No to commercial sexual exploitation of children in Madagascar

On World Day against sexual exploitation, the ILO in Madagascar calls for strong effective actions to eradicate the commercial sexual exploitation of children in the country.

Children of the Samut Prakan’s Burmese migrant community now have a community based child development facility

An abandoned space next to residential area of Karen Burmese communities was turned into a “Creative Space for Children” and launched late January 2014 by a group of migrant community members and Foundation for Child Development (FCD) with support...

ILO-IPEC in Thailand reinforces its collaboration to address child labour and forced labour with stakeholders in Songkhla Province of...

On February 5, 2014, IPEC Thailand team paid a courtesy call to the Governor of Songkhla Province, Mr. Krissada Bunraj, and met with the Provincial Office of Labour Protection and Welfare as well as representatives from shrimp and seafood industry...

Forced labour

Why definitions matter

Definitions are important in developing reliable data and in guiding action on forced and child labour. They mean we can be held accountable for our efforts to generate change in the name of those who are the most exploited in the world today.

Tribute

Tribute to Maestro Claudio Abbado

Maestro Claudio Abbado, one the greatest conductors of our age, Life Senator in Italy and co-founder of the Music Against Child Labour Initiative, died aged 80 on 20 January 2014 in Bologna. ILO-IPEC reflects on his career and his commitment to the...

ILO to conduct child labour survey in Kyrgyzstan

The International Labour Organization will conduct a child labour survey in Kyrgyzstan. This information became known on January 18 at the meeting between Kyrgyz Social Development Minister Kudaibergen Bazarbayev and expert of the ILO International...