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Towards the urgent elimination of hazardous child labour

This report brings together and assesses new research on hazardous child labour, following the ILO’s last report on this subject in 2011. The report demonstrates that we have extensive experience and an ample evidence base to assist us in tackling...

World Day against Child Labour

Kyrgyzstan: Looking for digital solutions to combat child labour

The ILO in Kyrgyzstan partnered with young information technology (IT) specialists to find ways of applying innovative digital technologies to help monitor child labour.

Our impact, their voices

Poverty leads children from Madagascar to work in dangerous conditions

World Day Against Child Labour focuses this year on hazardous child labour and safe work for youth of legal working age. Almost half of the 152 million victims of child labour – 73 million – toil in hazardous work. In Madagascar, children in child...

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World Day against Child Labour

Towards the urgent elimination of hazardous child labour

“Children are more vulnerable to risk than adults. Urgent action is needed to ensure no child under the age of 18 is in hazardous child labour,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour.

107th International Labour Conference

Marking the 2018 World Day Against Child Labour and the 20th Anniversary of the Global March

The ILO Director-General, Guy Ryder, and Nobel Peace Laureate, Kailash Satyarthi, were joined by young child rights activists, a SafeYouth@Work champion and experts from the employers’ and workers’ groups to mark the World Day Against Child Labour...

World Day Against Child Labour

B-roll: Giving Madagascar’s child domestic workers a second chance

In Madagascar, driven by poverty and lack of opportunity, many children work as domestic workers in conditions that can be dangerous for their health and safety. A project of the International Labour Organization aims to reduce the number of...

World Day Against Child Labour

B-roll: Kailash Satyarthi - If the world can reach out to Mars, why can’t we reach out to every child who is in danger?

“Today we know that the number of child labourers has decreased from more than 250 million to 152 million. So a lot has been achieved but it is not enough. If the world can reach out to Mars, why can’t we reach out to every single child who is in...

World Day Against Child Labour

B-roll: Kailash Satyarthi - If the world can reach out to Mars, why can’t we reach out to every child who is in danger?

“Today we know that the number of child labourers has decreased from more than 250 million to 152 million. So a lot has been achieved but it is not enough. If the world can reach out to Mars, why can’t we reach out to every single child who is in...

Photo story

The Smell of Dynamite: the life of a Myanmar child labourer

Pyae Phyo San is 14 years old. For the past two years he has been working in a quarry in Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Region. This photo story is a product of a photo-journalism workshop organized by the ILO Myanmar Programme on the Elimination of Child...

World Day Against Child Labour

Giving Madagascar’s child domestic workers a second chance

In Madagascar, driven by poverty and lack of opportunity, many children work as domestic workers in conditions that can be dangerous for their health and safety. A project of the International Labour Organization aims to reduce the number of...

Op-Ed

“Let the Shine of Progress against Child Labour not Tarnish”

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International Labour Organization Director General Guy Ryder: Join us in committing to urgent action to combat hazardous child labour!

“Children are more vulnerable to risk than adults. Urgent action is needed to ensure no child under the age of 18 is in hazardous child labour,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour

Towards the urgent elimination of hazardous child labour

“Children are more vulnerable to risk than adults. Urgent action is needed to ensure no child under the age of 18 is in hazardous child labour,” says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of World Day against Child Labour.

Caring Gold Mining Project: Commemorates World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL), 2018 in Ghana

The ILO through its ILO Caring Gold Mining Project, supports World Day against Child Labour (WDACL)-2018 activities in Ghana under the theme “Resist Child Labour! Improve the Safety and Health of Young Workers towards achieving SDG Goal8”.

World Day Against Child Labour

Myanmar: too many children still in hazardous and unsafe forms of work

Some 600,000 of the 1 million child labourers in the country are involved in hazardous work.

End child labour and promote safe and healthy work!

World Day Against Child Labour is marked on 12 June. Its theme in 2018 is the devastating impact of hazardous forms of work on children’s long-term health and well-being

Analysis of selected value chains of handicraft and food processing in Hanoi

Within the framework of ENHANCE’s direct support in Hanoi, the study aims at analysing priority handicraft value chains with a large concentration of households with children engaged in working activities or at risk of falling into child labour.

Empowerment through music: Lebanon’s choir against child labour

Children who have a history of child labour have embarked on a musical journey led by the ILO and Lebanon’s Ministry of Labour, and have taken their talents to Lebanon’s Presidential Palace for their first ever performance.

Lebanon’s choir against child labour

Lebanon has a new children’s choir – but this is a choir with a difference. All its members have, at some point in their lives, engaged in child labour – some in its worst and most hazardous forms.