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End child labour in supply chains - It's everyone's business!

World Day Against Child Labour 2016

This year, the focus for World Day Against Child Labour – marked on 12 June - is on child labour and supply chains. With 168 million children still in child labour, all supply chains, from agriculture to manufacturing, services to construction, run the risk that child labour may be present.

Child labour has no place in well-functioning and well regulated markets, or in any supply chain. The message that we must act now to stop child labour once and for all has been affirmed by the Sustainable Development Goals. Acting together, it is within our means to make the future of work a future without child labour."

Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General

Geneva Event Highlights

  1. Marking the 2016 World Day Against Child Labour in Geneva


  2. Andrews TAGOE, Head of Program, Rural workers at General Agricultural Workers Union of Ghana
    MaryAnn MIHYCHUK, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour of Canada

    Jorge TRIACA, Minister of Labour of Argentina
     
     

  3. Musical performance by the “Choeur pour l’abolition du travail des enfants” from Côte d’Ivoire How many tweets with hashtag #NOChildLabour have been sent during the high-level panel discussion?

Key resources

  1. Guidelines

    How to do business with respect for children’s right to be free from child labour: ILO-IOE child labour guidance tool for business

  2. Q&A on Business and Child Labour
  3. E-learning module “Business and Decent Work: an introduction to the MNE Declaration”
  4. Compendium of hazardous child labour lists and related legislation for selected countries

Good practices on child labour in supply chains

  2. Business and the fight against child labour - Experience from India, Brazil and South Africa

  1. A mobile application against child labour

    Eliminating and preventing child labour: Checkpoints for Companies

    This app allows business managers and auditors to create interactive checklists that will help them ensure a child labour-free operation. There are 18 checkpoints in total, divided into six categories. Each checkpoint provides best-practice recommendations for taking action.

Get involved

  1. Child Labour Platform (CLP) - A business-led forum for tackling child labour in supply chains

  2.

    The ILO, the private sector, and the fight against child labour

  3. ILO Helpdesk on international labour standards

Get involved!

  1. Alliance 8.7

  2. Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour

  3. "Music against Child Labour" Initiative

  4. Child Labour Platform (CLP)

  5. SCREAM programme