From June 10 to June 13 twenty students-volunteers from Bishkek Humanitarian University distributed information about the history of the World Day, hazardous jobs and their effect on children. They handed out booklets, posters, caps and T-shirts in state institutions, shopping malls, stores and on the streets of Bishkek.

The campaign was unveiled at a news conference held the Social Protection Ministry that brought together ILO tripartite constituents.

On June 13, children’s caravan - “Children say YES to education! No to hazardous work!” was organized in Bishkek.

Twenty-three working children from the country’s seven regions visited state institutions to attract attention to importance of ensuring education, eliminating the worst forms of child labour and observing legal rights of working children.

The children’s caravan visited the republic’s Social Protection Ministry, Education Ministry, Youth Affairs Ministry and the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Migration.

On the same day, the Social Protection Ministry in cooperation with the ILO’s International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) hosted a roundtable meeting to promote a national roadmap for eradicating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.

Among the roundtable meeting’s attendees were Vice Premier Ibragim Djunusov, Social Protection Minister Aigul Ryskulova as well as heads of the republic’s other ministries and departments, regional administrations, trade unionists, employers, experts of international and non-governmental organizations and working children.