All resources: child labour + child workers

Modern slavery and child labour

40 million in modern slavery and 152 million in child labour around the world

New data reveal that the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal Target 8.7, will not be achieved unless efforts to fight modern slavery and child labour are dramatically increased.

Global Estimates of Child Labour

The International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture on the new ILO Global Estimates of Child Labour

Gender equality

Powerful global coalition to boost equal pay for women at work

New initiative will support innovative and effective equal pay policies and practices around the globe.

Media advisory

Alliance 8.7 to present the latest global estimates of modern slavery and child labour

Press and integration

Media plays critical role in ensuring fair gains of economic growth

A media workshop is organized to help Vietnamese labour journalists gain in-depth knowledge on industrial relations issues in economic integration.

ILO seeks to combat street-based child labour through new support centre in Beirut

The ILO, Lebanon’s Ministry of Labour and the Norwegian Embassy inaugurate an ILO-supported children’s centre in one of the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs. The centre, operated by Beyond Association, will provide a variety of support services...

Rapid assessment of child labour in Guyana

This Rapid Assessment is part of a South-South Cooperation initiative funded through the Brazil-ILO Cooperation Programme, within the context of the ILO’s Regional Initiative: Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour (RI). The assessment...

Decent Work for Sustainable Development in Tanzania

“Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all”

ILO and MOL to open new support centre for working street children in Beirut

The Beyond Ouzai Centre in one of the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs will provide a variety of support services to local and refugee child labourers.

UN agencies ILO and FAO launch first Arabic-language guide for practitioners attending to child labour in agriculture

The guide offers practical and detailed information on attending to child labour in the agricultural sector in Lebanon, where the incidence of child labour has increased dramatically in recent years.

Child labour in agriculture in Lebanon: A guide for practitioners

Worldwide, almost 60 percent of working children aged 5–17 years can be found working in agriculture (including farming, fishing, aquaculture, forestry, and livestock). This amounts to more than 98 million girls and boys.

Protection of domestic workers

Promoting decent work for Indonesian domestic workers: Stand-up Comic Deswin Faqih

Stand-up Comedian Deswin Faqih supports the promotion of decent work for Indonesian domestic workers through his jokes about the plight of domestic workers and their struggles to fight for their basic labour rights.

Guide for Child Labour in Agriculture Practitioners

Protection of domestic workers

Promoting decent work for Indonesian domestic workers: Presenter Sari Nila

As a mother of two, Sari Nila, a presenter, understands the importance of domestic workers for her family. She also appreciates their contributions to the households, allowing working women like her to work outside their homes.

Protection of domestic workers

Promoting decent work for Indonesian domestic workers: Film Director Nia Dinata

“I am also a woman worker. Thus, for me, domestic workers are my fellow woman workers. We have to fight for our rights. Do not rely on other people to get our rights,” exclaimed Nia Dinata, a film director/producer, before lending her voice to...

Protection of domestic workers

Promoting decent work for Indonesian domestic workers: Actor Morgan Oey

Actor Morgan Oey supports the promotion of decent work for Indonesian domestic workers by lending his voice to read out the life story of Sargini as a child domestic worker. Before more than 200 people, Morgan relives the Sargini’s life under the...

Protection of domestic workers

Promoting decent work for domestic workers: Maruli A. Hasoloan, Director General of Labour Placement

Maruli A. Hasoloan, Director General of Labour Placement and Employment Development of the Ministry of Manpower, has given voice to the life story of Siti Kholifah, a domestic worker from Yogyakarta. Under the title “Benefits of written working...

Decent work for domestic workers: eight good practices from Asia

The eight good practices demonstrate successful initiatives to combat child labour in India and Nepal; to establish strong and sustainable domestic workers organizations in the form of trade unions, cooperatives or associations in Indonesia, the...

Rapid assessment of child labour in Saint Lucia

This Rapid Assessment is part of a South-South Cooperation initiative funded through the Brazil-ILO Cooperation Programme, within the context of the ILO’s Regional Initiative: Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour (RI). The assessment...

Combat child labour in domestic work and the worst forms in Haiti - Final evaluation summary

Evaluation consultant: Rima Slaibi