2021 IS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR FOR THE ELIMINATION OF CHILD LABOUR

We are making progress. Child labour has decreased by 38% in the last decade. But, 152 million children are still in child labour.

It’s time to accelerate the pace of progress. It’s time to inspire legislative and practical actions to eliminate child labour for good.

Child labour is work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential, and their dignity.

It harms children mentally, physically, socially, and morally. it interferes with their schooling, preventing them from attending or concentrating. it may involve them being enslaved, separated from their families, and exposed to serious hazards and illnesses.

Almost half of child labour happens in Africa (72 million children), followed by Asia and the Pacific (62 million).
70% of children in child labour work in agriculture, mainly in subsistence and commercial farming and herding livestock.