News
2023
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A Turnaround Journey — From School Dropout to Entrepreneur, Chabala Msukwa's Story of Transformation
12 September 2023
Today, Chawala Msukwa operates his own carpentry business, earning approximately K60,000 per month — an income he never could have imagined during his days of picking coffee berries.
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A Turnaround Journey — From School Dropout to Entrepreneur, Chabala Msukwa's Story of Transformation
12 September 2023
Today, Chawala Msukwa operates his own carpentry business, earning approximately K60,000 per month — an income he never could have imagined during his days of picking coffee berries.
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Sharing Results, Celebrating Impact!
Results Video: ACCEL Africa
30 June 2023
The Results Video of the "Accelerating action for the elimination of child labour in supply chains in Africa (ACCEL Africa) project" 1st phase implementation presents a comprehensive account of the project's journey from November 2018 to June 2023.
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World Day Against Child Labour 2023
ILO Myanmar calls for concerted actions to promote social justice in the fight against child labour
12 June 2023
Urgent action needed to help the more than one million children trapped in child labour in Myanmar due to poverty and crises.
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ACCEL Africa: World Day Against Child Labour 2023
06 June 2023
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ACCEL Africa: Advancing Responsible Gold Mining for Livelihoods and Rights
06 June 2023
The video presents the approaches undertaken by the ACCEL Africa project in Mali, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire to foster the formalization of the ASGM sector in the three target countries, providing insights from miners, local leaders, Government’s representatives, and private sector on how to promote a more responsible gold mining supply chain towards the elimination of child labour, the respect of human rights and the environment, and the promotion of decent work for all.
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Leaving the gold mining site and going back to school: Eliminating child labour in Nigeria
02 June 2023
In the small village of Kuchiko, the ILO ACCEL Africa project is helping young girls like Maimunat go back to school and pursue their dreams. The project is also supporting parents like Haruna Koko to earn an income and reduce the need to resort to child labour.
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Forthcoming report: Handbook on the detection of forced labour in fishing
31 May 2023
Existing guidance on forced labour detection has focussed in large part on land-based work settings, rather than on the highly specific and unique challenges to the detection of those in forced labour situations at sea.
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Forthcoming reports: Vulnerability paper series
31 May 2023
Identifying particularly vulnerable groups of children and their specific needs is essential for the elimination of child labour. Article 7 of International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 – the first Convention to achieve universal ratification by all 187 member States – requires ratifying states to “identify and reach out to children at special risk”.
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Skills training and financial empowerment: The antidote to child labour in India
29 May 2023
The ILO’s MAP16 project adopted a Convergence Model to empower rescued child labour and their families, socially and economically.