2012 will mark the 10th anniversary of the World Day against Child Labour. The ILO launched the first World Day in 2002 as a way to highlight the plight of working children and to serve as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labour. This year the World Day will provide a spotlight on the right of all children to be protected from child labour and from other violations of fundamental human rights.
- June 12 is World Day Against Child Labour.
- 2016 is the target date for eliminating the worst forms of child labour.
- The Hague Global Conference on Child Labour in 2010 called for more action on the worst forms of child labour, including kids working in trafficking situations.
- World Vision is launching an End Child Slavery campaign to tackle the worst forms of child labour (endchildslavery.ca).
- According to the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO), an estimated 115 million children do hazardous work.
- That’s about 53% of the 215 million child labourers and more than 7% of all children aged 5-17 in the world
- About 48 million children – aged 5 to 17 – do hazardous work in Asia and the Pacific.
- About 9.5 million are involved in hazardous work in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Almost 39 million have been counted in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- And an additional 18.9 are involved in hazardous work in other regions.
- ILO officials have found a 20% increase over the past four years in the in hazardous work done by older children.
- There has been a substantial decrease in hazardous work done by younger children — aged 5 to 14.
- Child labourers are those up to the age of 17
- Children have a higher rate of injury and death at work than adults.
- There has been success in getting children out of unsafe work environments, largely due to international efforts to reduce child labour numbers.
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