News
2018
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Slideshow
We need safe and healthy workplaces for young people
27 April 2018
To celebrate World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April and the World Day against Child Labour in June, the ILO is hosting the ‘Generation Safe and Healthy’ photo exhibition at its headquarters in Geneva – part of a campaign to keep young workers safe in the workplace and to end child labour.
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© Marcel Crozet / ILO 2018
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Madagascar: A way out of child sexual exploitation through apprenticeships
12 April 2018
In Madagascar, extreme poverty and lack of opportunities push many adolescent children into prostitution. In the city of Tulear, the International Labour Organization (ILO) along with UNICEF, SOS Children’s Villages, and employers’ and workers’ organizations are trying to raise awareness about children working in sex tourism. They offer young people the opportunity to learn new vocational skills.
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Our impact, their voices
Tackling commercial sexual exploitation of children on Madagascar’s beaches
12 April 2018
Poverty and lack of employment prospects make many teenage girls in coastal areas of Madagascar vulnerable to becoming trapped in commercial sexual exploitation. An ILO project supports community efforts to fight against the problem, one of the worst forms of child labour.
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Photo gallery
The fight against sex tourism on Madagascar’s beaches
12 April 2018
An ILO project in the area of Tuléar supports community efforts to fight commercial sexual exploitation of children, one of the worst forms of child labour.
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News
Alliance 8.7 in action: driving innovation to address child labour in Kyrgyzstan
26 March 2018
On March 23-25, 2018 the Central Asian Coalition on Promotion of the Rights of Women and Children and the “League on protection of Children Rights” Public Fund organized here the Central Asian Hackathon “Generation Z: wellbeing of children” in Bishkek.
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Empowerment through music
B-roll: From child labour to the Presidential Palace
22 March 2018
Lebanon has a new children’s choir – but this is a choir with a difference. All its members have, at some point in their lives, engaged in child labour – some in its worst and most hazardous forms. The choir is made up of Lebanese as well as Syrian and Palestinian refugee children. The choir’s first performance at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on the outskirts of the capital Beirut was attended by the President of Lebanon Michel Aoun.
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© Carsten ten Brink 2018
Child labour and forced labour
ILO reports important progress on child labour and forced labour in Uzbek cotton fields
13 February 2018
Monitoring team finds strong political will from central government to end fundamental labour rights’ violations during the 2017 cotton harvest: Child labour is no longer an issue, while forced labour is being systematically addressed.
2017
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© Peretz Partensky 2018
Child labour and forced labour
Uzbekistan ends systematic use of child labour and takes measures to end forced labour
12 December 2017
An ILO team monitoring the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan has found that child labour is no longer systematically used and that measures are being taken to end the use of forced labour. These conclusions were discussed at a roundtable in Tashkent.
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Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour
The international community agrees to redouble efforts to fight against child labour and forced labour
16 November 2017
The three-day IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour concluded with the adoption of the Buenos Aires Declaration which spells out principles and actions to be taken. During the meeting, delegates presented almost 100 pledges for concrete steps towards the eradication of child labour and forced labour, and the generation of quality employment for young people.
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Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour
ILO head warns that there are still 152 million victims of child labour
14 November 2017
In his opening speech to the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, the ILO Director-General acknowledged the progress achieved in the past 20 years, but warned that there is still a long way to go in order to eradicate child labour in all its forms.