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ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) Dateline Philippines marked the World Day against Child Labour and featured a live interview with Director Khalid Hassan of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines on the new ILO and UNICEF child labour report.

12 June 2021


Invest in decent work, digital economy, education programmes is what Director Khalid Hassan of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines underscored in a live interview with the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) Dateline Philippines.

Marking the World Day against Child Labour (WDACL), and Independence Day in the Philippines, the live interview also talked about the need to free children from the bondage of child labour, and the new ILO and UNICEF child labour report.

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