World Day Against Child Labour (12 June 2003)

The International Labour Organization has chosen June 12 as World Day Against Child Labour to focus world attention on the urgent need to eradicate child labour. Child labour is a complex problem that requires comprehensive solutions driven by moral outrage, personal commitment, community determination and national action. This is a day to remember the children and to commemorate those who work to bring about a world without child labour. This is a day for employers, governments, workers' groups, and civil society to renew their mandates to make that world a reality - a world where parents work and children go to school. The second World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO will focus attention on trafficking in children - everywhere it occurs and in whatever form - to prevent and stop the practice.

News

To end worst forms of child labour, nations must fight trafficking of children, UNICEF says (12.06.2003)
World Day Against Child Labour draws attention to plight of trafficked children (12.06.2003)
ILO to mark World Day Against Child Labour (12 June 2003) (11.06.2003)
FIFA and ILO team up on worldwide campaign to fight child labour (14.02.2003)
Gender dimensions of child labour and street children in Brazil (23.10.2002)
Global March Statement on First World Day Against Child Labour (15.06.2002)
Too many children working, UNICEF says (12.06.2002)
ILO members urged to take action on child labour in agriculture (12.06.2002)

Useful links

ILO Web site on Child Labour

First World Day Against Child Labour (2002)

Stop Human Trafficking web site (Anti-Slavery International)

Human Rights Watch World Report 2002-Children's Rights

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)-Child Labour

International treaties on children's rights, particularly child labour:
- Text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
- Simplified version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- ILO Convention (No. 138) concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (1973)
- ILO Convention (No. 182) concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor (1999)

Selected learning materials

Employers' Handbook on Child Labour

Fields of Hope: Educational Activities on Child Labor. Teacher's Guide

"How to Protect Human Rights?" Lesson Plan: Children's Rights in the UN System of Human Rights Protection (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland)

Teaching for Human Rights: Grades 5-10

Other International Days