News
2021
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News
The ILO brings together experts in Europe to discuss the development of its campaign on child labor in global supply chains.
28 November 2021
The workshop brought together experts from a variety of fields, including public relations and communications specialists, behavioral scientists, and activists who provided input from their own experience in campaigning on child labor that helped inform and shape the strategy.
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Press release
ECOWAS validates its regional action plan on child labour and forced labour, achieving, in partnership with the ILO and WANEP, its IYECL 2021 action pledge.
28 November 2021
Following a thorough review exercise, the Economic Community of West Africa States Commission has validated the second cycle of the Regional Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour in West Africa (2021-2030).
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Article
ILO collaborates with NASCENT Research and Development Organisation to implement direct interventions to eliminate child labour within communities in Uganda
28 October 2021
The program of action will support children aged 14-17 years in vocational training and provide post-training support and transition from school to work, as well as referral of children to the formal education system.
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SDG target 8.7
The United Nations system supports Côte d'Ivoire in its strategic planning of priority actions to combat child labour.
20 October 2021
The challenge for the Government is to achieve a real synergy of action between all actors, both public and private, technical and financial partners and civil society organisations, at both central and decentralised levels
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Combating child labour in cocoa farming
Focus on WIND: an ILO integrated approach to eliminate child labour in cocoa farming
06 October 2021
Abidjan (ILO News) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) through the ACCEL Africa project (Accelerating Action for the Elimination of Child Labour in African Supply Chains), and its partners from the National Agency for Rural Development (ANADER), the Coffee and Cocoa Council and the Ministry of Employment and Social Protection, carried out a mission from 27 September to 1 October 2021 in Soubré in the west of Côte d'Ivoire to monitor and update the individual and community work plans of the training pairs whose role is to improve the living and working conditions of actors in the cocoa value chain according to the WIND (Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development) approach.
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Article
L'Organisation Internationale du Travail (OIT) et le syndicat des enseignants du Malawi (TUM) s'associent pour éliminer le travail des enfants par l'amélioration des écoles et l'accès à l'éducation
01 October 2021
Ce partenariat intervient à un moment critique, car le COVID-19 a contribué à l'augmentation des taux d'abandon scolaire, notamment en raison des impacts socio-économiques de la pandémie, ainsi qu'à la fermeture périodique des écoles
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Article
International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Teachers Union of Malawi (TUM) partner to eliminate child labour through school improvements and access to education
01 October 2021
This partnership comes at a critical time, as COVID-19 has contributed to rising rates of school dropouts, including because of the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic, as well as periodic school closures.
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Winning research proposals
15 Junior Researchers Awarded Fellowships and Seed Grants
28 September 2021
A promising group of researchers are selected to address knowledge gaps in the field of child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking.
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Article
ILO promotes the extension of Universal Health Coverage to rural households in cocoa-producing areas
22 September 2021
In Côte d'Ivoire, the project focuses on the "cocoa supply chain" in the sub-prefecture of Soubré and M'batto and includes a social protection component. This component aims to find ways to strengthen the social protection of families on cocoa farms and thus improve decent working conditions for the adult workforce, which would have a direct impact on reducing child labour.
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Child labour
The CLEAR Cotton project offers education opportunities as an alternative to child labour in the cotton fields
21 September 2021
The CLEAR Cotton project contributes to national efforts to eliminate child labour in the cotton, textile and garment value chain in Burkina Faso, Mali, Pakistan and Peru.