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The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization (ILO)-sanctioned holiday first launched in 2002 [1] aiming to raise awareness and activism to prevent child labour. It was spurred by ratifications of ILO Convention No. 138 [2] on the minimum age for employment and ILO Convention No. 182 [3] on the worst forms of child ...
Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women, an organization directed towards the liberation of women from all kinds of oppression and exploitation based on sex, race or class; Thorn, aka Digital Defenders of Children; Ashton Kutcher's organization driving tech innovation to fight child trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children
Motivating an alliance of partners to acknowledge and act against child labour. Carrying out a situational analysis to find out about child labour problems in a country. Assisting with developing and implementing national policies on child labour problems. Strengthening existing organizations and setting up institutional mechanisms.
This category collects organizations related to child labour; for example, unions and organizations working to end or improve child labor conditions. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to hold five major technology companies liable over their alleged support for the use of child labor in cobalt mining operations in the ...
The elimination of child labour was one of the main goals of the ILO. According to the UN agency, 152 million children worldwide are affected by the convention, almost half of which do dangerous work. Most child labour is carried out in the agricultural sector, mainly due to poverty and the difficulties faced by parents.
In fiscal 2024, the Department of Labor investigated 736 cases of child labor violations impacting more than 4,000 children. It fined employers more than $15 million, an 89% increase from the ...
Targeted child labour campaigns were initiated by the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in order to advocate for prevention and elimination of all forms of child labour. The global Music against Child Labour Initiative was launched in 2013 in order to involve socially excluded children in structured musical ...