Today, 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 International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the first World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 as a way to highlight the plight of these children. June 12th is intended to serve as a catalyst for the growing worldwide movement against child labour.
The World Day Against Child Labour provides and 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. This week, Speak Up for Change is recognizing this important day by sharing various resources on the issue of Child Labour, along with publishing youth-written blog posts.
- Making the Connection: Teaching Children
- Child Exploitation
- Kids: Tips and Tools to Be Media Wise
- The Convention on the Rights of the Child
- English SCREAM Education Pack
- Le travail des enfants: un manuel à l’usage des étudiants
- Child Labor And Human Rights: Making Children Matter by Burns H. Weston
- Child Labour by Kristoffel Lieten
- Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proves that Children Can Change the World by Craig Kielburger, Kevin Major
- The Economics of Child Labour by Alessandro Cigno, Furio Camillo Rosati
- Child Labour: Is it a Blessing to the Children or a Curse?
- His eyes
- Disappearing Behind the Wall of Child Labour
- Child Labour and the Need for Education
- Exploitative Child Labour in Cocoa-Producing West African Nations.
- Beyond Child Labour Affirming Rights
- Child labour challenge toughens
- Nike and Child Labor
- The football industry From Child Labour to Workers' Rights, Sialkot-Pakistan
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