Kazakhstan: national awareness-raising campaign “12 Days Against Child Labour”
Kazakhstan annually holds a national awareness-raising campaign “12 Days Against Child Labour” from June 1 to June 12. This year’s campaign used the ILO slogan “Warning! Children in hazardous work - End child labour.”
12 June 2011
Within the campaign’s framework the NGO Union of Women of Intellectual Labour together with ILO-IPEC produced and broadcast public service announcements on hazardous child labour in agriculture in Almaty and South-Kazakhstan region.
They also organized round tables on hazardous child labour in agriculture for local stakeholders, high school and primary school teachers and school medical personnel, as well as sessions for children under SCREAM-Stop Child Labour Education Pack (Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media).
A two-day training for the trade union of agriculture workers and the trade union of education workers on the role of trade unions in the elimination of child labour and participation in the child labour monitoring system took place on June 14-15.
UNDPI-ILO joint event for UN colleagues and partners in Almaty showed several episodes from the movie “All the Invisible Children” directed by the world’s famous filmmakers.
Moreover, the ILO-IPEC in cooperation with UNESCO department at Al Farabi Kazakh National University and the NGO Union of Women of Intellectual Labour announced a competition for best media publication on the worst forms of child labour, which results will be announced at the end of June.