215 million children worldwide involved in child labour - ILO

215 million children worldwide involved in child labour – ILO

Jun 13, 2012 News

Recent global estimates reveal that 215 million children worldwide are involved in child labour, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO) which commemorated World Day Against Child Labour yesterday.
The ILO launched the first World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 as a way to highlight the plight. The day, which is observed on June 12th, is intended to serve as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labour, reflected in the huge number of ratifications of ILO Convention No. 182 on the worst forms of child labour and ILO Convention No. 138 on the minimum age for employment.
According to the ILO, this year’s observance will provide a spotlight on the right of all children to be protected from child labour and from other violations of fundamental human rights. In 2010, the international community adopted a roadmap for achieving the elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016, which stressed that child labour is an impediment to children’s rights and a barrier to development.
World Day 2012 highlighted the work that needs to be done to make the roadmap a reality.
The ILO’s Conventions seek to protect children from exposure to child labour. Together with other international instruments relating to children’s, workers’ and human rights, they provide an important framework for legislation established by national governments.
However, the labour organisation said the children concerned should be at school being educated and acquiring skills that prepare them for decent work as adults. By entering the labour market prematurely, they are deprived of this critical education and training that can help to lift them, their families and communities out of a cycle of poverty. In its worst forms, child labourers may also be exposed to physical, psychological or moral suffering that can cause long term damage to their lives.
The ILO underscored that hundreds of millions of girls and boys throughout the world are engaged in work that deprives them of adequate education, health, leisure and basic freedoms, violating their rights. Of these children, more than half are exposed to the worst forms of child labour such as work in hazardous environments, slavery, or other forms of forced labour, illicit activities such as drug trafficking and prostitution, as well as involvement in armed conflict.
The World Day Against Child Labour essentially provides an opportunity to gain further support of individual governments and that of the ILO social partners, civil society and others, including schools, youth and women’s groups as well as the media, in the campaign against child labour.
The ILO yesterday called for “Universal ratification of the ILO’s Conventions on child labour (and of all ILO core Conventions); National policies and programmes to ensure effective progress in the elimination of child labour and the action to build the worldwide movement against child labour”.

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