WORLD DAY AGAINST
CHILD LABOUR
Every year on June 12 the World Day Against
Child Labor is observed to raise awareness of the plight of child laborers
world-wide. Hundreds of millions of girls and boys around the world are
affected.
Child labor is
especially rampant in many developing countries - but even in industrialized
nations many children are forced to work. According to UNICEF, children in the
United States “are employed in agriculture, a high proportion of them from
immigrant or ethnic-minority families.” There have also been a number of
incidents of westerns companies exploiting child laborers in developing
countries to save production costs.In 2011, there were an estimated 215 million
child laborers in the world - 115 million of which were involved in hazardous
work. To combat child labor around the world the International Labour
Organization (ILO) initiated the World Day Against Child Labor in 2002.
Child labour has no place in well-functioning and well regulated markets, or in
any supply chain. The message that we must act now to stop child labour once
and for all has been affirmed by the Sustainable Development Goals. Acting
together, it is within our means to make the future of work a future without
child labour."
The International Labour
Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus
attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts
needed to eliminate it. Each year on 12 June, the World Day brings together
governments, employers and workers organizations, civil society, as well as
millions of people from around the world to highlight the plight of child labourers
and what can be done to help them.This year, the focus for World Day Against
Child Labour is on child labour and supply chains. With 168 million children
still in child labour, all supply chains, from agriculture to manufacturing,
services to construction, run the risk that child labour may be present.
Prof. John Kurakar
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