News
2022
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The ILO Accel Africa supports Improved apprenticeship in dual education system through transition from school to work training.
21 April 2022
The Dual Education System (DES) is a unique 3-year governmental technical vocational education system that combines on-the-job training and off-the-job learning. After the 3 years, apprentices earn a technical education diploma, in addition to a local certificate from the investors' association or the authority supervising on-the-job training, which facilitates the apprentices' professional career. Apprenticeship contracts did not specify the hours of training at the company level. In addition, the rights and responsibilities of apprentices in the workplace are not known, which can lead to them performing hazardous work and experiencing the worst forms of child labor.
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Media advisory
Global Conference in South Africa to tackle rising child labour
21 April 2022
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News
ILO and UI Certify SCREAM Trainers to Fight Child Labour
21 April 2022
The ACCEL Africa Project in Nigeria is strengthening systems and providing stakeholders across spheres of the society with the skills and tools required to urgently eliminate child labour and achieve SDG Target 8.7 by 2025.
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News
ILO’s informative meetings on combating child labour in the Black Sea Region
08 April 2022
A series of informative meetings were held for institutions in the context of “An Integrated Model for the Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour in Seasonal Agriculture in Hazelnut Harvesting in Turkey”
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© Seng Mai / Photo Doc 2022
Voices
Child labour in Myanmar’s jade mines is a deadly gamble
08 April 2022
More than 160 million children are still in child labour around the world. With the COVID-19 pandemic threatening to reverse years of progress, the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour will be taking place in Durban, South Africa, 15–20 May. More than 4,000 delegates will discuss good practices, identify gaps and the urgent measures that are needed to help children like Min Min, who works in Myanmar’s jade mines.
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News
Message from Ms Yoko Oginome, a Japanese singer participating in the ILO’s ArtWorks/ Music Against Child Labour Initiative
31 March 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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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.