News

2013

  1. Statement

    Exhibition "The ILO's fight against child labour: Dreaming of Freedom" - Taleb Rifai Statement

    10 June 2013

  2. Statement

    Exhibition "The ILO's fight against child labour: Dreaming of Freedom" - Sir Leroy Trotman Statement

    10 June 2013

  3. Statement

    Exhibition "The ILO's fight against child labour: Dreaming of Freedom" - Asefe Bequele Statement

    10 June 2013

  4. World Day against Child Labour

    ILO to publish a new report on child labour in domestic work

    06 June 2013

  5. News

    ECOWAS/ILO Symposium on the West Africa Regional Action Plan to Eliminate Child Labour, Especially the Worst Forms

    04 June 2013

    The West African Regional Action Plan to Eliminate Child Labour Especially the Worst Forms was the subject of a three day symposium, organised jointly by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the International Labour Organisation, held in Accra, Ghana from 27-29 May 2013.

  6. Statement

    Sistema Nacional de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela - Statement of support

    03 June 2013

  7. Press release

    Provinces finalize Action Plans against Child Labour & Bonded Labour and agree to improve reporting on ILO Conventions

    01 June 2013

    All provincial labour departments agreed on action plans to revise labour legislations regarding child and bonded labour and subsequent actions. Moreover, the Ministry of Human Resource Development and Provincial Labour Departments have also agreed in action plans to improve reporting on ILO Conventions.

  8. Public-private partnership

    Eliminating seasonal child labour in Turkey

    02 May 2013

    The ILO teams up with European private industry to help prevent children from working in seasonal hazelnut harvesting in Turkey.

  9. Child labour

    Protecting children from having to work

    30 April 2013

    Social protection measures can help reduce the incidence of child labour, says Constance Thomas, Director of the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).

  10. Economic vulnerability

    ILO report shows why social protection is crucial to tackle child labour

    29 April 2013

    Measures such as cash transfers or health insurance programmes can sometimes determine whether a child spends the day studying and playing, or working and being deprived of a fair chance at a decent future.