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He wouldn’t hesitate to kill

“I always keep a machete under the bag I use as a pillow. If they really want to kill me, I won’t hesitate in killing them first.”

Child ‘substitute drivers’

Child drivers? “I don’t know about that,” said the Minister of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection, Linda Amalia. “At night, children should study or rest at home.”

Future national football player who “plays” on streets

He once attended a football school in Senayan, but little Ilham eventually “fell” into the streets and now drives for Metromini.

Underage drivers rule the road by night

“It’s not that hard once you’ve got it moving,” says Andi Ilham as he powers a lurching Metro Mini at high speed down a Jakarta street late at night.

The true sole of Indonesia’s child labourers

Fans of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales may remember the story of “The Elves and the Shoemaker.” It was the tale of a humble shoemaker and his wife who struggled with business until mysterious elves came to help in the middle of the night....

ILO launches artists programme, Nicolas Cage calls for an end to child labour

The International Labour Organization (ILO) – the UN agency specialising in the world of work – launches ArtWorks, an artist engagement programme to raise awareness of fundamental rights at work, including freedom from slavery and from child labour.

International Day of the Girl Child

Message by Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, on the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child 2012

International Day of the Girl Child

ILO says discrimination against young girls must end

The world must make sure that girl children find their rightful places at home, school and, as they grow up, at work - on equal terms with boys.

European Union and ILO support minimum age for employment to be set at 14 years

A European Union funded and ILO implemented project Combating Abusive Child Labour (CACL-II), has supported that the minimum age for employment should be set at 14 years. This is in compliance with the ILO Convention no. 138 on “minimum age in...

Nicolas Cage: Let's end child labour

SCREAM - Supporting Children’s Rights through Education Arts and the Media in Fiji

A Training programme on essential information regarding child rights; issues faced by children including child labour and the worst forms of Child Labour and were empowered to take action in addressing these issues through the use of drama,...

Opening address at the Luzon regional convergence planning workshop on the elimination of the worst forms of child labour

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the Luzon regional convergence planning workshop on the elimination of the worst forms of child labour, Clark, Philippines, 27 September 2012

ILO, IUF and ECLT Foundation congratulate the Government of Malawi

The three organizations were proud to support the Government of Malawi in hosting the Malawi National Conference on Child Labour in Agriculture, which took place in Lilongwe, 4-6 September 2012.

Address at the High-Level Meeting on the Application of Child Labour Conventions Ratified by China

By Mr Qiu Xiaoping, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security

From Haiti

Slavery in a free land

The use of children as domestic workers is pervasive throughout Haiti. Though culturally accepted for generations, a new campaign has been launched to combat what is one of the worst forms of child labour.

India propose a ban on the employment of children younger than 14

The Government has expressed its commitment to ratifying ILO core Conventions on Child Labour, Convention No. 138 on the minimum age to employment and Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour.

"Momentous" new agreement to promote child rights and child protection in South Asia

The Regional Secretariat of the South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children (SAIEVAC), a South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Apex Body and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have signed a new Memorandum of...

Message at the launch of the child labour-free barangays in Bukidnon

By Mr Cesar Giovanni Soledad, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Programme Manager, delivered on behalf of Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the launch of the child labour-free...

Opening address at the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Midterm evaluation and national stakeholders workshop

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Midterm evaluation and national stakeholders workhop, Manila, Philippines, 20 July 2012

Investing in quality ‘second chance’ education

An opinion-editorial by Dede Sudono, Project Officer of Child Labor and Education Programme, and Tauvik Muhamad, Programme Officer, ILO-Jakarta, focusing on the importance of 'second chance' education for Indonesian children in order to increase...