News on child labour
2022
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Child Labour
Bangladesh ratifies the Minimum Age Convention
22 March 2022
Bangladesh has now ratified all ILO Fundamental instruments.
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© Peretz Partensky 2022
Child labour - Forced labour
ILO welcomes lifting of Cotton Campaign boycott of Uzbekistan
14 March 2022
Agricultural and economic reforms have led to the eradication of systemic child labour and forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest.
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Press release
ILO partners with ICEED to eliminate child labour through economic empowerment and vocation skills training for youth in Malawi
10 March 2022
Lilongwe, March 10, 2022 – The International Labour Organization (ILO), ACCEL Africa Malawi project and the Impact Centre for Economic Empowerment and Development (ICEED) have signed a new partnership valued at Mk376 million (circa. USD$450,000) to eliminate child labour in Malawi by implementing a technical vocational skills training program with at least 300 youths of legal working age (14 -17 years and above) and economic empowerment activities for atleast 500 men and women in the lower tiers of the tea and coffee supply chains.
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Press release
National Statistical Office (NSO) of Malawi partners with the International Labour Organization to survey child labour in Malawi’s tea and coffee sectors
10 March 2022
Malawi, 10th March 2022 – The National Statistical Office of Malawi (NSO), with support from the International Labour Organization (ILO) through the ACCEL Africa Malawi project will conduct a child labour survey in the country’s tea and coffee sectors. Data will be collected from some 1,380 households involved in tea and coffee production across the five districts of Chitipa, Mulanje, Mzimba, Ntchisi, and Thyolo.
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Free self-guided on-line course
Reporting on child labour for media
04 March 2022
The ITC-ILO in collaboration with the ACCEL Project in Africa is offering this self-guided online training to improve the communicating on child labour.
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© ILO 2022
Forced and child labour
Uzbek cotton is free from systemic child labour and forced labour
01 March 2022
Almost two million people are recruited every year for the annual cotton harvest in Uzbekistan. The country has succeeded in eradicating systemic forced labour and systemic child labour during the 2021 cotton production cycle, according to new ILO findings.
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News
“The role of cooperatives in eliminating child labour” tool is now available in Spanish
28 February 2022
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Alliance 8.7
The Netherlands becomes an Alliance 8.7 pathfinder country
15 February 2022
The Netherlands recently became a pathfinder country for Alliance 8.7. ILO-Brussels interviewed Wilm Geurts, Director International Affairs at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment of the Netherlands, about this new status.
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© Chalinee Thirasupa 2022
Voices
We stand up for our labour rights
08 February 2022
Sai Sai is a migrant construction worker in Chiang Mai, a city in Northern Thailand. Under Thai legislation, migrant workers were not allowed to do skilled construction work. Sai Sai along with other migrant workers and local organizations worked together to get the law amended.
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Impact stories
From child labour and forced labour to dreams of a better future
31 January 2022
Today, more than 160 million children are in child labour and 25 million people are in forced labour. What do they need? How do they feel? And who is helping them?