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Child labour in agriculture on Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho

GMA Network’s Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (One at heart, Jessica Soho) featured a child ploughing a two-hectare field in the Philippines. ILO’s Gwendolyn Fabros talked about the ARISE Project with the Government of Japan to reduce the worst forms of...

Photo-Saafan and Oechslin co-chair the third meeting of the National Steering Committee for the implementation of the National Plan of...

Mr. Mohamed Saafan - His Excellency the Minister of Manpower, and Mr. Eric Oechslin - Director of the ILO Office for Egypt and Eritrea, co-chaired today, Thursday, via Zoom, the third meeting of the National Steering Committee (NSC) for the...

Photo2-Saafan and Oechslin co-chair the third meeting of the National Steering Committee for the implementation of the National Plan of...

Mr. Mohamed Saafan - His Excellency the Minister of Manpower, and Mr. Eric Oechslin - Director of the ILO Office for Egypt and Eritrea, co-chaired today, Thursday, via Zoom, the third meeting of the National Steering Committee (NSC) for the...

Saafan and Oechslin co-chair the third meeting of the National Steering Committee for the implementation of the National Plan of Action to...

Mr. Mohamed Saafan - His Excellency the Minister of Manpower, and Mr. Eric Oechslin - Director of the ILO Office for Egypt and Eritrea, co-chaired today, Thursday, via Zoom, the third meeting of the National Steering Committee (NSC) for the...

ILO Supports Nigeria's Response to Child Labour Emergency

Nigeria has set the wheels in motion for a remarkable International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (IYECL) 2021 with the validation of the second cycle of its National Policy on the Elimination of Child Labour and the launch of the...

ILO COOP participates in the Strategic Workshop “Toward an action plan to eliminate child labour and to promote decent work in solid waste...

Head of ILO’s COOP Unit highlighted the role that cooperatives play for informal waste-pickers to access social protection, generate negotiation power with public and private stakeholders and to formalize their work.

Photo3-Saafan and Oechslin co-chair the third meeting of the National Steering Committee for the implementation of the National Plan of...

Mr. Mohamed Saafan - His Excellency the Minister of Manpower, and Mr. Eric Oechslin - Director of the ILO Office for Egypt and Eritrea, co-chaired today, Thursday, via Zoom, the third meeting of the National Steering Committee (NSC) for the...

News article about MAP16 efforts in Morocco

Morocco has rolled back child labour for the youngest – now, COVID-19 looms

Supplier guidance on preventing, identifying and addressing child labour

This document provides practical guidance for factories and other production sites to prevent child labour through effective age verification and the protection of young workers, and to effectively respond to it if it does occur.

Op-ed

It’s time to eliminate the unacceptable. Together we can end child labour.

The United Nations has declared 2021 as the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour. Chihoko Asada-Miyakawa, ILO's Assistant Director-General and Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, explains why the time for change is now.

ILO builds the capacity of agricultural and labour administration experts on the participatory action-oriented approach in Soubré

The ILO's Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour (Accel Africa) project conducted a training workshop to build the capacity of agricultural experts and labour administrators on the participatory action-oriented approach to better...

Quick facts - Projects supporting the regional initiative Latin America and the Caribbean free of child labour - Phase II - Independent...

ILO and partners launch nation-wide campaign to tackle the worst forms of child labour in Iraq

The campaign will bring together different partners to raise awareness on the increasing dangers of child labour and mobilise efforts to reach the heart of communities most impacted by the rise of child labour in Iraq.

CAOBISCO and ILO extend cooperation in combating child labour in seasonal hazelnut harvesting in Turkey

Executive Summary

Child labour and social protection in childhood in Argentina - Executive summary

Promotion of Decent Work Opportunities for the Economic Empowerment of Vulnerable Segments of Society (Project fact sheet)

Decent Work is a measure to reduce poverty and inequalities in the society. This project proposed three distinct sets of interventions to promote decent work opportunities in Pakistan for vulnerable groups including Child and Bonded Labourers in...

Joint report of the CBS and ILO

Nepal Child Labour Report 2021

The child labour report covers the data on child labour and child labour in hazardous occupations with disaggregation on age, sex, geography, cast and ethnicity in Nepal. It also covers the information on parental income and education level as the...

Joint press release of the CBS and ILO

Need for a rigorous effort to eliminate child labour in Nepal

ILO Nepal and Central Bureau of Statistics in Nepal have jointly released the Nepal Child Labour Report 2021. The report highlights key data and analysis crucial to end child labour in the country, and reveals how the progress in human development...

Combatting child labour with expanded access to education in agricultural areas

A partnership in Jordan between an ILO project to combat the worst forms of child labour and the Noor Al Hussein Foundation works to ensure access to quality education for refugee and host-community children living in rural and remote areas.

Viet Nam’s Music Against Child Labour song competition now open for entries

The competition aims to harness the power of music to raise awareness of child labour.