All resources: child labour + child workers
Red card to child labour: Zambia unites to protect every child, promotes school sensitization
Zambia marked the 2026 World Day Against Child Labour in Chipangali with strong calls to end child labour, alongside school sensitization activities educating learners and communities on children’s rights and the importance of keeping every child in...
World Day Against Child Labour
Uzbekistan marks World Day Against Child Labour 2026
An awareness-raising event highlighted children's rights and the 2026 campaign theme, “Red card to child labour: Fair play for children, decent work for adults”.
Op-ed
Is every child working on the street a victim of child labour?
Tendy Gunawan, ILO Rural Development TVET Officer in Timor-Leste, highlights a question that is often asked whenever people see children selling snacks, tissues or other items on the streets of Dili. This opinion editorial was published by Tatoli,...
Podcast
From Marrakech to the post-2030 agenda: A new global target on child labour
As the world falls short of its 2025 target to end child labour, this podcast explores what comes next. Representatives of workers, employers and the ILO discuss how to keep child labour high on the global agenda beyond 2030 and what a new global...
World Day Against Child Labour
30,000 voices, one goal: Ending child labour in Indonesia through the power of football
Through a landmark partnership, the ILO and PSSI are showing child labour the red card and championing every child’s right to learn, play and thrive in Indonesia.
ILO, UNICEF and FAO convene high-level roundtable to accelerate action against child labour in Türkiye
Marking the World Day Against Child Labour, government institutions, social partners and UN and UN Agencies call for stronger coordination and integrated action to eliminate child labour.
From Work to School: Nigeria Takes a Major Step to Protect Millions of Children
New National Child Labour Policy and Action Plan 2026–2030 aims to reduce hazardous child labour, strengthen institutions, and help millions of children stay safe, learn, and thrive.
High-level dialogue to focus on coordinated action to eliminate child labour in Türkiye
Ahead of World Day Against Child Labour, government institutions, social partners, and UN agencies will call for a stronger coordination and integrated action to eliminate child labour.
Video
138 million children in child labour: ILO calls for urgent action
Nearly 138 million children are still in child labour, including 54 million in hazardous work. In this message, Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), calls for urgent action to change this reality.
Child Labour
Uganda strengthens community response to child labour
In Kalungu District, the CLEAR Supply Chains has successfully supported and strengthened an informal child protection structure to identify, monitor and resolve child labour in coffee producing communities. A total of 122 para-social workers were...
360° video story
Breaking the silence in the cocoa fields: A virtual reality story from Nigeria
In this immersive virtual-reality film from Nigeria, young women from cocoa-growing communities share how child labour disrupted their childhoods, and how the ACCEL Africa project helped them gain skills, independence and hope for the future.
2025 Observance of recruitment and working conditions in the cotton harvest in Turkmenistan
This report presents the findings from the ILO’s observance of the 2025 cotton harvest, with a particular focus on progress and remaining challenges in the prevention of child labour and forced labour.
Trade for Decent Work Project in Mongolia - Phase 2
#EndChildLabour campaign organized in Darkhan city reaches more than 20,000 people online in a single day
The International Labour Organization, through the European Union funded “Trade for Decent Work” project, organized a public awareness campaign on the elimination of child labour during the “Europe Day–2026” event held in Darkhan city in...
Zambia targets end to Child Labour with new national action plan
Zambia is stepping up efforts to end child labour, as Government and partners, with ILO support, review progress and develop a new National Action Plan (NAP III) to drive stronger, results-focused action to protect children’s rights and future.
Uganda
Child labour in Uganda: Trends and drivers, 2012-2021
Child Labour
Community-based child labour monitoring and remediation in Uganda
Child labour is a major challenge in Uganda’s rural coffee-growing communities, driven by poverty, household vulnerability, limited access to services, and weak education and protection systems. The CLEAR Supply Chains project – led by the...
ILO and European Union launch project to promote decent work and prevent child and forced labour in Turkmenistan
EU-funded ILO project will support national efforts to strengthen labour standards and address child labour and forced labour with a focus on the cotton sector.
Press release
ILO and Responsible Minerals Initiative partner to address child labour in mineral supply chains
Agreement will align efforts to support stronger private-sector action on prevention, due diligence and remediation.
Child Labour
Strengthening occupational health and safety: a key step toward preventing child labour in the Honduran coffee industry
The ILO-led CLEAR Supply Chains Project is empowering companies and cooperatives in Honduras’s coffee sector to prevent child labour through concrete strategies to be implemented throughout the supply chain.
Ghana becomes an Alliance 8.7 pathfinder country
Ghana has attained Alliance 8.7 Pathfinder Country status, marking an important step in national efforts to eliminate child labour, forced labour, human trafficking and modern slavery.
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