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eLearning Tools on Child Labour

eLearning tools on child labour

The eLearning tools are designed to help to better understand what child labour is and the key role ILO stakeholders can play.

Child Labour

© Ridma Weerawardena
Let them fly, don’t clip their wings!

Sri Lankan singer, Ridma Weerawardena, is the latest musician from around the world to join the ILO’s Global Music Against Child Labour Initiative. The song is his contribution to the global fight to end child labour.
- "Music against Child Labour" Initiative
Child labour and human trafficking remain important concerns in global supply chains

New estimates of child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains are revealed in a report compiled by the ILO, OECD, IOM and UNICEF – members of the Alliance 8.7 partnership on child labour, forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking.
- Read the report: Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains
Timor-Leste moves forward to reach a future without child labour

The Government of Timor-Leste has taken an important step in its effort to eradicate child labour in all its forms, particularly the worst forms of child labour. Timor-Leste launch the first child labour survey and the series of labour force survey, supported by the ILO.
Eliminating child labour is an important facet of the ILO's work. Child labour not only prevents children from acquiring the skills and education they need for a better future, it also perpetuates poverty and affects national economies through losses in competitiveness, productivity and potential income. Withdrawing children from child labour, providing them with education and assisting their families with training and employment opportunities contribute directly to creating decent work for adults.
2021 declared International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour

The UN General Assembly has urged the international community to step up efforts to eradicate forced labour and child labour, and declared 2021 as the Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.
World Day Against Child Labour - 12 June 2019

Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!

This year, the World Day Against Child Labour will look back on progress achieved over a 100 years of ILO support to countries on tackling child labour.
© F. Vindas, G. Bolanos

Child labour in domestic work

Learn more about what is child domestic work and what does constitute child labour in domestic work?
ILO InfoStories· website on labour issues

The website allows users to delve into a broad range of multimedia content on particular themes, such as child labour, forced labour, collective bargaining and discrimination in the workplace.
© Lisa Kristine

Alliance 8.7: For a world without forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour

Building on the new momentum created by the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Alliance 8.7 brings together all interested parties to join forces in achieving Target 8.7 aiming at a world without forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour.

Facts and figures

Worldwide 218 million children between 5 and 17 years are in employment.
Among them, 152 million are victims of child labour; almost half of them, 73 million, work in hazardous child labour.
In absolute terms, almost half of child labour (72.1 million) is to be found in Africa; 62.1 million in the Asia and the Pacific; 10.7 million in the Americas; 1.2 million in the Arab States and 5.5 million in Europe and Central Asia.
In terms of prevalence, 1 in 5 children in Africa (19.6%) are in child labour, whilst prevalence in other regions is between 3% and 7%: 2.9% in the Arab States (1 in 35 children); 4.1% in Europe and Central Asia (1 in 25); 5.3% in the Americas (1 in 19) and 7.4% in Asia and the Pacific region (1 in 14).
Almost half of all 152 million children victims of child labour are aged 5-11 years.
42 million (28%) are 12-14 years old; and 37 million (24%) are 15-17 years old.
Hazardous child labour is most prevalent among the 15-17 years old. Nevertheless up to a fourth of all hazardous child labour (19 million) is done by children less than 12 years old.
Among 152 million children in child labour, 88 million are boys and 64 million are girls.
58% of all children in child labour and 62% of all children in hazardous work are boys. Boys appear to face a greater risk of child labour than girls, but this may also be a reflection of an under-reporting of girls’ work, particularly in domestic child labour.
Child labour is concentrated primarily in agriculture (71%), which includes fishing, forestry, livestock herding and aquaculture, and comprises both subsistence and commercial farming; 17% in Services; and 12% in the Industrial sector, including mining.

Source: Global Estimates of Child Labour: Results and trends, 2012-2016, Geneva, September 2017.

News

TRT World

Eliminating child labour is an urgent issue, says the ILO

05 December 2019
Child Labour

Let them fly

28 November 2019
Press release

Let them fly, don’t clip their wings !

26 November 2019
Alliance 8.7

Countries in Asia and the Pacific drive action to end child labour, forced labour and human trafficking

22 November 2019
Event

Asia Regional Conference on reaching SDG Target 8.7: Eradicating forced labour, human trafficking and child labour

Publications

Technical Report

Measuring child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains: A global Input-Output approach

12 November 2019
Report

Ending child labour, forced labour and human trafficking in global supply chains

12 November 2019
Publication

IPEC+ Global Flagship Programme Implementation

10 April 2019
Second edition (2018)

Ending child labour by 2025: A review of policies and programmes

10 December 2018
Publication

Assessment of the effects of annual drought and floods on child labour (hazardous and non-hazardous) and child welfare in Sri Lanka

30 November 2018

Good practices

A mobile application against child labour

Eliminating and preventing child labour: Checkpoints for Companies

This app allows business managers and auditors to create interactive checklists that will help them ensure a child labour-free operation. There are 18 checkpoints in total, divided into six categories. Each checkpoint provides best-practice recommendations for taking action.
1. iOS version
2. Android version

Videos on child labour

The big picture

ILO Flagship programme

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour (IPEC+)

In line with Sustainable Development Target 8.7, IPEC+ focuses on the elimination of child labour in all its forms by 2025 and the eradication of forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking by 2030.

Highlights

Conference

IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, Buenos Aires, 14-16 November, 2017

The ILO participates in the IV Global Conference on Child Labour which will bring together representatives from government, social partners, civil society, regional and international organizations to share policies and experiences in the global fight against child labour.

Under the framework of the SDG Target 8.7, it was agreed that the IV Global Conference should cover both the sustained eradication of child labour and the elimination of forced labour and, in this context, it will also address the issue of the quality of youth employment.

ILO Programmes against child labour

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)

Created in 1992, IPEC has grown to become the biggest dedicated child labour programme in the world and the largest technical cooperation programme within the ILO. It is now operational in some 90 countries, benefiting millions of children worldwide.

Get involved in our campaigns against child labour

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