Decision on the eighth item on the agenda: Follow-up to the Brasilia Declaration on Child Labour
Decision on the eighth item on the agenda: Follow-up to the Brasilia Declaration on Child Labour
(a) requested the Office to convey its thanks to the Government of Brazil and the Brazilian social partners for hosting and ensuring the success of the III Global Conference on Child Labour and welcomed the offer of the Government of Argentina to host the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour in 2017;
(b) endorsing the Brasilia Declaration, requested the Office to ensure its integration into the ILO Global Action Plan on Child Labour and the work of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour; and
(c) reconfirmed its commitment to the elimination of child labour as one of the fundamental principles and rights at work, and thus as one of the Organization’s highest priorities in the realization of the Decent Work Agenda, and requested the Office to put in place all necessary means to achieve this objective.