PAKISTAN: World Day against Child Labour 2015

A report on the events organized by the ILO Country Office in Pakistan in commemoration of the World Day against Child Labour, June 12, 2015.

As part of the commemorative events for the 2015 WDACL under the theme “NO to Child Labour, YES to Quality Education”, the ILO Country Office Islamabad, Pakistan, in close collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Country Office for Pakistan, organized a number of events in partnership with ILO’s constituents, sister UN agencies and civil society organizations. These included increased media engagement, drafting of a country specific op-ed, awareness raising through “theatre performance” organized in collaboration with the Employers’ Federation of Pakistan, High-level Advocacy Seminar organised by the office of the National Commissioner for Children in Wafaqi Mohtasib [Federal Ombudsperson] in collaboration with UNICEF and the ILO, Tripartite plus dialogue on “Lahore Social Compliance in Supply Chain – The Case of Sialkot, organized in collaboration with the Employers’ Federation of Pakistan, and a Red Card Campaign. The Report elaborates on all these activities undertaken in Pakistan as parts of an effort to combat child labour.