{"id":2833,"date":"2019-07-26T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T13:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2019-08-05T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:56:50","slug":"2021-declared-international-year-for-the-elimination-of-child-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thaianti-humantraffickingaction.org\/Home\/2019\/07\/26\/2021-declared-international-year-for-the-elimination-of-child-labour\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 declared International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UN General Assembly has urged the international community to step up efforts to eradicate forced labour and child labour, and declared 2021 as the Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.<\/strong><\/p>\n

GENEVA (ILO News) \u2013 The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has unanimously adopted a resolution declaring 2021 as the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, and has asked the International Labour Organization to take the lead in its implementation.<\/p>\n

The resolution highlights the member States\u2019 commitments \u201cto take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UNGA acknowledged the importance of the\u00a0ILO\u2019s Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No. 182)\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which is close to universal ratification by the ILO\u2019s 187 member States \u2013 as well as the Convention on the Rights of the Child.<\/p>\n

It also recognized the importance of \u201crevitalized global partnerships to ensure the implementation of the\u00a02030 Agenda for Sustainable Development\u00a0<\/a>, including the implementation of the goals and targets related to the elimination of child labour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Argentina took a lead role in advocating for this global commitment, as a follow up to the\u00a0IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour\u00a0<\/a>, which took place in Buenos Aires in November 2017. Seventy-eight countries co-sponsored the resolution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that this will be one more step to redouble our efforts and our progress to advance, day by day, towards a world in which no child is subjected to child labour or exploitation and a world where decent work for all will be a reality,\u201d said Martin Garcia Morit\u00e1n, Argentina\u2019s representative to the UN.<\/p>\n

The ILO has been working for the abolition of child labour throughout its 100 year-history, and one of the first Conventions it adopted was on\u00a0Minimum Age in Industry (No. 5, 1919)\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The organization is a partner in\u00a0Alliance 8.7\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and serves as the secretariat of this global partnership for eradicating forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour around the world.<\/p>\n

Substantial progress has been achieved in recent years, largely because of intense advocacy and national mobilization backed by legislative and practical action. Between 2000 and 2016 alone, there was a 38 per cent decrease in child labour globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe struggle against child labour has gained extraordinary momentum over the past two decades,\u201d said Beate Andrees, Chief of the ILO\u2019s Fundamentals Principles and Rights at Work Branch. \u201cYet, 152 million children across the world are still in child labour. We obviously need to scale up action further, and the decision by the General Assembly to declare 2021 the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour will be a great help in focusing attention on the millions of girls and boys still toiling in the fields, in the mines and in factories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: International Labour Organization<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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