All publications: child labour + child workers

Analytical report

Rapid assessment on child labour in Hlaing Thar Yar industrial zone in Yangon, Myanmar- 2015

This report presents the findings of a rapid assessment on child labour in the Hlaing Thar Yar Industrial Zone in Yangon, Myanmar. Conducted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2015, the assessment aimed to understand the prevalence of...

Child Labour Platform (CLP) and the Global Compact: Public-Private Partnership

The Child Labour Platform (CLP) is a thematic member-based workstream of the UN Global Compact’s Labour Working Group, open to companies committed to contributing to the effective elimination of child labour. It is also open to UN agencies, trade...

Supporting the elimination of child labour in Malawi agriculture: Public-Private Partnership

Following its commitment to ILO values demonstrated by ratification of various ILO Conventions, the Government of Malawi organised its first ever National Conference on Child Labour in Agriculture on 5-6 September 2012. The Conference was organized...

Partnership to combat Child Labour in the chocolate and cocoa industry: Public-Private Partnership

This partnership in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire between the ILO and a number of companies in the chocolate and confectionery industry seeks to eliminate child labour and to ensure workforce continuity in cocoa growing farms by younger generations.

Latin American Network to Combat Child Labour: Public-Private Partnership

This partnership between Fundación Telefónica and the ILO created a strategic regional alliance to more efficiently combat child labour in Latin America. It strengthens institutions and provides the required tools to disseminate good practices and...

Reducing the worst forms of child labour in tobacco-growing communities in Brazil, Malawi and Zambia: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) have forged a partnership to achieve greater impact and have, together, established the Achieving Reduction of Child Labour in Supporting of Education (ARISE) programme. By addressing the identified...

Eliminating Child Labour and promoting Decent Work in the Stora Enso value chain: Public-Private Partnership

Stora Enso (SE) is a leading paper, biomaterials, wood products and packaging company with its head offices in Finland and Sweden. Bulleh Shah Packaging (BSP) is its joint venture and agricultural and recycling product supplier. To strengthen its...

Technical cooperation activities to Combat Child Labour in Portuguese Speaking Countries in Africa, Brazil and Timor-Leste (CPLP):...

In the framework of this programme, the Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD) agreed with ILO Lisbon to fund technical cooperation activities to combat child labour in CPLP countries in 2010. Its contribution was used to cofinance other IPEC-related...

Eliminating the worst forms of child labour in Turkish seasonal harvesting: Public-Private Partnership

The partnership between CAOBISCO and the ILO contributes to the elimination of the worst forms of child labour in seasonal agriculture, in line with the Government’s strategy based on a National Time-Bound Policy for the elimination of WFCL by 2015.

A protective environment for children in Côte d'Ivoire cocoa-growing communities: Public-Private Partnership

Mars Inc. has teamed up with a range of partners in Côte d’Ivoire to help farmers produce better crops and increase their incomes; to help communities improve their living standards; and to fight child labour by making sure children go to school and...

World Organization of the Scout Movement combats Child Labour: Public-Private Partnership

The partnership connects the 40 million-strong Scout Movement with the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), with a particular focus on its Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and Media...

Migrant and child labor in Thailand’s shrimp and other seafood supply chains: Labor conditions and the decision to study or work

The study provides practical, empirically grounded policy recommendations to stakeholders in both national and provincial governments and industry, drawing on a combination of existing evidence and data from the ILO's work in Thailand and...

Report - Trade Union Regional Workshop on Capacity Building of Domestic Workers Organizations and Elimination of Child Domestic Labour;...

Organized by the PROMOTE Project ILO Jakarta and ILO Regional Office for Asia Pacific - Bangkok. Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor

Good practices and lessons learned in cocoa communities in Ghana

This compendium of good practices outlines some measures that were innovative, relevant/responsive, efficient, effective, ethical, sustainable and replicable. The project exceeded its targeted number of beneficiaries and made significant gains in...

A programme to reduce WFCL in tobacco-growing communities in Zambia (ARISE I) (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project ZAM/12/55/JTI - Evaluation consultant: Jose Maria Alvarez (team-leader) and Stephen Chipala

World day against Child Labour 2015 - Report for Pakistan

June 2015 saw the commemoration of World Day Against Child Labour around the world. Under the theme "NO to Child Labour, Yes to Quality Education, the ILO in Pakistan rolled out events and activities with various partners including Employers...

Sub-regional training workshop to develop skills and livelihood training programmes for older children in child labour or at-risk in the...

The Workshop on Developing Skills and Livelihoods Training for older children in child labour or at risk provides the opportunity for practitioners and policy makers in Pacific Island Countries to be trained on how to design and implement skills and...

Irish Aid Phase II: Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their...

Project GLO/13/57/IRL - Evaluation consultant: João de Azevedo (team-leader); National Evaluators: Stella Dzator (Ghana); Affo Daoudou Hamissou (Benin)

Education

Educating for Union Strength

The handbook emphasizes the importance of training educators and focuses on ‘educating the union educator’ to implement education activities that are learner focused and based on the principles of solidarity and collectivism. It recognizes that...

Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC) dialogue on child labour report