332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body

Follow-up to the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour (Buenos Aires, 14–16 November 2017)

This paper: (a) reports on the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, held in Buenos Aires from 14 to 16 November 2017, and its key outcomes; (b) proposes endorsement of the main Conference outcome document (the Buenos Aires Declaration on Child Labour, Forced Labour and Youth Employment) to ensure its implementation in conjunction with the ILO Plan of Action for the period 2017–23 to give effect to the conclusions concerning the second recurrent discussion on fundamental principles and rights at work, adopted by the International Labour Conference in June 2017; (c) reconfirms the ILO’s commitment to the elimination of child labour and forced labour; and (d) invites the Governing Body to thank the Government of Argentina and the Argentine social partner organizations for hosting the IV Global Conference (see draft decision in paragraph 25).