International Labour Organization
(ILO) started to celebrate World Day Against Child
Labour in 2002
Aim: To focus attention on the global extent of child labour and
the action and efforts needed to eliminate it.
The 2019 theme is Children shouldn’t work in
fields, but on dreams!
The day brings government employers and workers
organizations, civil society, as well as millions of people from around the
world to highlight the plight of child labourers.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by
world leaders in 2015 to include a renewed global commitment to ending child
labour.
Sustainable Development Goals and effective
measures are take-ups in order to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery
and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst
forms of child labour includes use of child labours by the year 2025 and to end
child labour in all its forms.
ILO celebrates 100 years of advancing social
justice.
The protection of children embedded in the ILO’s
Constitution (Preamble). One of the first Conventions adopted by the ILO was on
Minimum Age in Industry (No. 5, 1919).
8.7 target set by the international community
calling for an end to child labour in all its forms by 2025.
About World Day Against
Child Labour
Observances: UN, International Labour
Organization
Frequency: annual
Called as: WDACL
Observed by: UN Members
