III Global Conference on Child Labour - Brasilia, 8-10 October 2013
Highlights
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Outcome documents
Get informed, get involved
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Facts and figures
Marking progress against child labour: Global estimates and trends 2000-2012
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Hold up your Red Card to child labour!
Slideshow: The reality of child labour
Child labour is work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.
The global number of child labourers has declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million...
... but even the latest improved rate of decline is not enough to achieve the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016 – agreed by the international community through the ILO.
Agriculture remains by far the most important sector where child labourers can be found (98 million children, or 59%)...
... but the problems are not negligible in services (54 million) and industry (12 million) – mostly in the informal economy.
© Nicolas Asfouri / AFP
More than half of the 168 million child labourers worldwide are involved in hazardous work.
Child labour among girls fell by 40 % since 2000, compared to 25 % for boys.
© Alexander Joe/AFP
The incidence of child labour is highest in poorer countries but middle-income countries have the largest numbers of child labourers.
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The largest absolute number of child labourers is found in the Asia-Pacific region, although the region registered by far the largest decline, from 114 million in 2008 to 78 million in 2012.
Between 2008 and 2012, child labour among children aged 5-17 years declined in Asia and the Pacific, Latin American and the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa regions.
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Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the region with the highest incidence of child labour in terms of proportion of the population, at over 21%.
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There are 9.2 million child labourers in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Policy choices and accompanying investments in education and social protection have driven progress in the fight against child.
From The Hague to Brasilia
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Background
II Global Child Labour Conference, 2010 - The Hague
More than 450 delegates from 80 countries agreed on a Roadmap aimed at “substantially increasing” global efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016.