Innovative approaches to end child labour in agriculture

9-:00-10:00 am EST | Zoom webinar

The World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) reminds us that 112 million children are trapped in child labour in agriculture and its subsectors. They represent 70% of all child labour. Agriculture is the only sector where child labour increased between 2016 and 2020, with an additional four million girls and boys involved (ILO, UNICEF 2020). Even more worrisome, the international community is now less than one year away from the deadline of eliminating child labour in all forms by 2025 set by the Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7. This target will not be met in the future without a breakthrough in agriculture.  

In this context and as part of the global week of action of the WDACL, FAO is organizing a dialogue among champions of this cause. The event will be an opportunity for global, regional, and country-level actors to provide a collective and concrete overview of the innovative approaches at hand to address child labour in in agriculture sub-sectors. 

Speakers:

Mr. Bernd Seiffert, FAO Focal Point for Child Labour in Agriculture 

Mr. Benjamin Davis, Director of FAO’s Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality Division (ESP) 

Ms. Sophie De Coninck, Head of Operations, Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch, International Labour Organization (ILO) 

Ms. Marcia Eugenio, Director of the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT), U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) 

Mr. Andrews Addoquayte Tagoe, Deputy General Secretary for the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of the Trades Union Congress-Ghana

With welcoming remarks by Ms Jocelyn G. Brown Hall, Director of the FAO Liaison Office for North America

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