Global Child Labour Conference 2010

Illustration by Dick Bruna Global Conference calls for renewed efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour
The Hague Global Child Labour Conference on 10-11 May was organized by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment in close collaboration with the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and in cooperation with UNICEF and the World Bank.

  1. Background and objectives

Press releases

  1. Global conference agrees on a Roadmap to step up action to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016

    11 May 2010

    More than 450 delegates from 80 countries have agreed on a Roadmap aimed at “substantially increasing” global efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016.

  2. New ILO global report on child labour: As efforts to end child labour slow, ILO calls for “re-energized” global action
  3. ILO to issue new global report on child labour on eve of major conference in The Hague

Videos

  1. Constance Thomas, Director of the International Program on the Elimination of Child Labour

    The Global Report on Child Labour - An Interview with Constance Thomas

    10 May 2010

    ILO TV interviews Constance Thomas, Director of the International Program on the Elimination of Child Labour about the Global Report: "Accelerating Action Against Child Labour".

Feature stories

  1. A boy and a girl labourers in a brick factory

    The State of Child Labour Today

Photos

  1. African boy working the soil

    Photos on child labour

Statements

  1. Statement by Kari Tapiola, ILO Executive Director, at the Global Child Labour Conf, The Hague, 10 May 2010
  2. Opening speech by M. Piet Hein Donner - Minister of Social Affairs and Employment of The Netherland

Slideshows

  1. Children at school; boy in the foreground smiling

    Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Child Labour

    Today more than 200 million children are in child labour and 115 million girls and boys can be found in its worst forms. Although child labour is declining, the pace has slowed down. Breaking the cycle of poverty and child labour is essential.

  2. As efforts to end child labour slow down, ILO calls for "re-energized" global action