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03 April 2024
Action Against Child Labour
The International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF latest estimates indicate that 160 million children worldwide are engaged in child labour – that is, work that they are too young to perform or that, by its nature or circumstances, is likely to harm children’s health, safety or morals. This underscores the urgent need for immediate action to…
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15 June 2022
Child labour and responsible business conduct
This report provides guidance to businesses, policy makers and other stakeholders towards meeting SDG Target 8.7 on eradicating child labour by 2025. It improves on existing literature by emphasising responsible business practices that address root causes and wider children’s rights deprivations. The report outlines how the private sector can…
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Remarks
03 June 2022
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell's remarks at the World Day Against Child Labour High-Level Side Event
NEW YORK, 3 June 2022 - "The current child labour situation is cause for concern. "Children have been hardest hit by the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. "We estimate 100 million more children have fallen into poverty since the pandemic began. As the child poverty rate increases, so does the risk of child labour. "For the first time since…
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27 May 2022
Charting the course
Ten years after the publication of the Children’s Rights and Business Principles (CRBPs), UNICEF, Save the Children and the UN Global Compact have released a report (October 2022) and a Brief (June 2022) reviewing progress and looking ahead on embedding children's rights in responsible and sustainable business conduct. The report offers a…
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Blog post
03 March 2022
Stories of suffering and hope: Afghanistan and Pakistan
One of the first things I wanted to do as Executive Director is to see for myself how we work on the ground to help children and to meet some of the teams working day and night to do that. Deciding on which country to visit first felt a bit like choosing a favourite child. I wanted to see how we respond to humanitarian crises and how we help…
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Press release
09 June 2021
Child labour rises to 160 million – first increase in two decades
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 10 June 2021 – The number of children in child labour has risen to 160 million worldwide – an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years – with millions more at risk due to the impacts of COVID-19, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF. Child Labour: Global estimates 2020…
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07 April 2021
UNICEF's plans for the year for the Elimination of Child Labour
This brief outlines UNICEF's planned activities for the 2021 Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.
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15 June 2020
COVID-19 and Child Labour: A Time of Crisis, A Time to Act
A joint publication from UNICEF and ILO
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Report
12 June 2020
COVID-19 and child labour
Recent years have seen significant progress in the fight against child labour. The current COVID-19 pandemic, however, can potentially reverse the positive trends observed in several countries and further aggravate the problem in regions where child labour has been more resistant to policy and programme measures. The level of global economic…
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11 June 2020
COVID-19 may push millions more children into child labour – ILO and UNICEF
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 12 June 2020 – Millions more children risk being pushed into child labour as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, which could lead to the first rise in child labour after 20 years of progress, according to a new brief from the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UNICEF. According to COVID-19 and child labour: A time of crisis…
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09 June 2020
New UNICEF, NBIM guidance to help businesses prioritize child rights in global supply chains
GENEVA, 10 June 2020 – A new guidance released today by UNICEF and Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) will help clothing and footwear companies better address children’s rights in their global supply chains. Released ahead of World Day Against Child Labour, the guidance tool is the result of a partnership between UNICEF and NBIM, which…
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Programme
18 May 2020
Child labour
Economic hardship exacts a toll on millions of families worldwide – and in some places, it comes at the price of a child’s safety. Roughly 160 million children were subjected to child labour at the beginning of 2020, with 9 million additional children at risk due to the impact of COVID-19. This accounts for nearly 1 in 10 children worldwide. …, What we do, Children learn in a centre in Jordan in 2019. Children largely from the ethnic Dom community learn in a UNICEF-supported centre in Jordan, in 2019. With many of their families living in poverty, these children become especially vulnerable to negative coping mechanisms, like working on the street. Centres play a key role in identifying children who…, Learn more about child labour, Related resources, Action Against Child Labour | Case Studies Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward Child Labour: UNICEF Data Inter-Agency Coordination Group against Trafficking in Persons UNICEF Child Protection Advocacy Brief: Child Labour IOM Handbook for Protection and Assistance for Migrants Vulnerable to Violence, Exploitation and…
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