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World Day Against Child Labour 2011

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is to mark this year’s World Day against Child Labour (June 12) with events in more than 50 countries, along with a new report on children in hazardous work.

World Day against Child Labour, 12 June 2011

From child labourer to child advocate: How Rodel succeeded in leaving the mineshaft

More than half (53 per cent) of the 215 million child labourers worldwide do hazardous work. While their number is increasing among older children, aged 15-17, progress is being made for younger children, aged 5-14, says the latest ILO report on...

International Children's Day and the World Day against Child Labour 2011 in Cambodia

Celebrations of the International Children's Day and the start of the observance of the WDACL in Cambodia was presided over by H.E Mrs Man Sam An, Deputy Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia.

Questions and answers on Children in hazardous work

The 2011 World Day Against Child Labour will provide a global spotlight on hazardous child labour. The ILO’s most recent global estimate is that 115 million children are involved in hazardous work. This is work that by its nature or the...

Opening message at the Launch of Child Labour Knowledge Sharing System (CLKSS)

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines, Makati City, Philippines

ILO press conference to spotlight child labour in the Philippines - 5 April 2011, Quezon City

MANILA (ILO News) – As the school year ends and millions of children in the Philippines look forward to their summer vacation, there are hundreds of thousands who will get no holiday – child labourers. These children – who are mostly from rural...

Building the commitment to reach a future without child labour in Jember, East Java

Child labour is found in almost every district in Indonesia, including in Jember, East Java where child labour can be found in various sectors such as in agriculture, including plantations, as domestic workers and in (other parts of) the informal...

Empowering ex-child labourers with vocational training

The International Labour Organization (ILO) through its International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) is organizing an inauguration for ex-child labourers graduating from vocational training on sewing on Saturday, 12 March 2011,...

Mobile teachers educate 'seasonal pupils'

Children from rural areas often skip classes while some even have to drop out of school to help their families in the farm during harvest seasons. The Department of Education (DepEd) said that these child labourers tagged as 'seasonal pupils' can...

Opening message at the Anti-Child Labour Communities of Practice Visioning Workshop

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines

Children on the move - An ILO perspective

Presented by Hans Van de Glind, ILO-IPEC Child Labour and Migration Specialist, at the International Conference on "Children on the Move" - Barcelona, 5-10 October 2010

Statement by ILO-IPEC Director, Ms. Constance Thomas, at the Third Ministerial Follow-up Forum to the Paris Commitments and Paris Principles

Ms Constance Thomas, Director of ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), speaks on behalf of the Paris Principles Steering Group on the economic component of prevention and reintegration programmes.

Turkmenistan’s parliament ratifies ILO’s Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention

On September 27, Turkmenistan’s parliament ratified the ILO’s Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999, (No. 182).

Labour migration and child labour in Kazakhstan

How to protect labour migrants’ rights and prevent child labour? These issues topped the agenda of a roundtable meeting focusing on working conditions of migrants employed in agriculture in the Almaty region.

National education strategy discussed in Dushanbe

The Tajik capital hosted on July 21 a national seminar on integration of child labour issues in the education sector’s policies.

Conference on Zero Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016 Child Sharing experiences to achieve the goal 21-23 June 2010 Colombo

By Ms Tine Staermose, Director, ILO Office in Sri Lanka

World Day against Child Labour: Reviewing the Current Status and Plans for the Future on the Elimination of Child Labour

JAKARTA (ILO News): Since early 2000, there have been important developments in the efforts to eliminate child labour in Indonesia.

COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF

Millions more children risk being pushed into child labour as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, which could lead to the first rise in child labour after 20 years of progress, according to a new brief from the International Labour Organization (ILO)...

Cooperation against Child Labour

Brazil, U.S. and ILO to expand fight against child labour in post-earthqake Haiti - first ILO North-South-South "triangular agreement"

Brazil and the United States have joined forces to expand the fight against child labour in Haiti, in the first “triangular agreement” on North-South-South cooperation to be signed under the auspices of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Go for the Goal: End Child Labour

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) launch the advocacy campaigns for this year’s World Day against Child Labour today in Beijing, China. The theme for 2010 World Day against Child Labour is “Go...