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Feature for World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2008 – Street children in Russia: Back to school, back to life

The ILO has estimated that some 165 million children between the age of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour. Many of these children work long hours, often in dangerous conditions. Education provides a means through which economically and socially...

Feature for World Day against Child Labour, 12 June 2008 – The road to school is a route out of child labour

Asia-Pacific enjoys a reputation as a vibrant economic region, but it is also home to more working children than any other region in the world; an estimated 122 million children aged 5-14 years are compelled to work for their survival. Some try to...

The “Gateway School”, a way of eliminating child labour

Education is a human right and a key factor in the reduction of poverty and child labour. Yet, over 70 million primary-age children are not enrolled in school and most of them are part of the 218 million children worldwide involved in child labour....

World Day Against Child Labour 2008 ─ ILO says education is the “right response” to child labour

Citing data indicating that many of the estimated 75 million children lacking primary schooling start working at an early age, the International Labour Office (ILO) said today that education was critical to breaking the cycle of child labour and...

Feature for World Day Against Child Labour 2008 – When “voceadores” learn to SCREAM: Giving a voice to education instead of child labour

Education is often seen as an empowerment right, that can lift economically and socially marginalized children and youth out of poverty. Yet in some developing countries, education remains more of a luxury than a reality for many poor children, who...

Asia-Pacific marks World Day Against Child Labour with focus on Education

World Day Against Child Labour (12 June) will be marked with a focus on the role of education in combating child labour, and particularly the need to improve children’s access to schooling.

Feature for World Day Against Child Labour - From muddy fields to the classroom: a boy’s journey out of child labour

The international community has taken significant steps in the eradication of child labour and the International Labour Organization has recognized that the end of the worst forms of child labour is within reach. Still, it is an uphill struggle and...

Reaching the unreached: the child labour challenge in India

“Every child counts…Over the last year, we have rescued more than 5,000 children from the streets of Hyderabad to enable them to regain their lost childhood”, says Leyla Tegmo-Reddy, ILO Director in New Delhi, India. The ILO’s International...

Brazilian Minister of Labour and Indian Minister of Labour hold up a Red Card to child labour

The Brazilian Minister of Labour, Mr. Carlos Lupi, and Indian Minister of Labour, Mr. Oscar Fernandes, hold up a red card to child labour and announce South-South cooperation to combat child labour, particularly its worst forms.

Media advisory for World Day Against Child Labour, June 12 2008 – Education: the right response to child labour

World Day Against Child Labour will this year be marked by thousands of events in scores of countries around the world on 12 June with a focus on the need to improve access of children to education as the right response to child labour.

Soccer Legend and former Brazilian Minister of Sports, Pele joigned the Red Card Campaign

Soccer Legend and former Brazilian Minister of Sports Pele has been a member of the Red Card Campaign since 2007.

Uzbekistan ratifies ILO’s Minimum Age Convention.

On April 4, Uzbek President Islam Karimov signed a law to ratify ILO’s Minimum Age Convention (C138, 1973). The parliament adopted this law last March.

Closing remarks at the Session of the Stakeholder Workshop for the Finalization of a Strategic Plan for TBP Phase II in Cambodia

by Mr Bill Salter, Director, ILO Subregional Office for East Asia

Opening remarks at the Inaugural Session of the Stakeholder Workshop for the Finalization of a Strategic Plan for TBP Phase II in Cambodia

by Mr Bill Salter, Director, ILO Subregional Office for East Asia

International Women's Day 2008 - Smart women, right decisions: a recipe for decent work

More and more women are entering the labour markets around the world, according to a new report published by the ILO to coincide with International Women’s Day. However, women continue to bear the brunt when it comes to vulnerable employment....

Hope for Haiti’s restavecs: South-South cooperation against child labour

About 600 miles off coast Florida and only a two hour plane ride from Miami, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere where an estimated 300,000 children work as child labourers. Last month, the Brazilian government announced a...

ILO approves US$500,000 projects to combat child labour

Through the eight new Action Programme almost 9,600 children of freed Kamaiya and Haruwa/Charuwa will be mainstreamed into formal education or Out of School Programmes (OSP), depending on their age.

Out of sight – girls in mining

A new ILO study shows that not only are children still being forced to work in mines, but many of them are girls. It is child labour in its worst form: young girls risk permanent injury from carrying heavy loads of rock and contamination from...

Address to the The Mekong Women's Forum on Solidarity and Empowerment

by Ms Sachiko Yamamoto, Regional Director, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Campaign for hazard-free, child labour-free agriculture in Thailand

Thai government officials, employers, workers, non-governmental organizations, private sector representatives, teachers, students and the International Labour Organization (ILO) join forces today to work towards a hazard-free, child-labour-free...