Statement

Immediate Action Needed to Address Pervasive Child Labour in Agriculture

12 June 2019

A joint statement for World Day Against Child Labour 2019 by Global March Against Child Labour

Statement

Joint Statement by the High Representative and the European Commission on the occasion of the World Day against Child Labour

12 June 2019

News

EU, FAO and ILO unite to end child labour in agriculture

12 June 2019

Our impact, their voices

Community action to fight child labour

12 June 2019

By working with local communities an ILO project in Bangladesh has succeeded in removing 2,000 children from child labour.

World Day Against Child Labour

Fighting child labour: An interview with children's rights trainer Molly Namirembe

12 June 2019

To mark World Day Against Child Labour 2019, the ILO ran a thematic forum on child labour at the 108th International Labour Conference. Molly Namirembe, a youth advocate from Uganda and SCREAM (Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media) trainer, participated in the forum, and spoke to ILO TV about her contribution to the fight against child labour.

Press release

Children should work on their dreams, not on fields !

12 June 2019

World Day Against Child Labour is marked on 12 June. Its theme in 2019 is children should work on their dreams, not on fields.

Our impact, their voices

Out of the mines and into school

12 June 2019

An ILO project in Ghana’s artisanal mining communities is helping to reduce child labour and open up opportunities for education for vulnerable children.

World Day Against Child Labour

World Day Against Child Labour sheds light on working children in Jordan’s agricultural sector

12 June 2019

ILO Jordan holds events for children working on farms to highlight importance of education on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour.

Op-Ed for World Day Against Child Labour 2019

“To be a child is to be a dreamer”

12 June 2019

Not be breadwinners or burdened with adult responsibility. An opinion editorial by Ms Simrin Singh, Country Director, ILO Country Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Child Labour

Observing the World Day against Child Labour in Suva, Fiji

12 June 2019

The ILO’s Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182) has achieved almost universal ratification by the ILO’s 187 member States, and the ratification rate of the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) is not far behind.