International Day Against Child Labor
In 2002, the International Labor Organization launched the first international day to confront the phenomenon of child labor or child labor, with the aim of drawing the world's attention to this problem, and cooperating among all countries of the world to reduce the phenomenon of child labor. eliminate this phenomenon. Choosing the twelfth of June of each year as the International Day against Child Labor; Ensuring international cooperation and continuous support from: civil society, labor and workers organizations, employers, governments, and other institutions to combat the phenomenon of child labor.
Promoting the International Day Against Child Labor
The importance of the International Day is that it increases its control and support for the power of the global movement, and ensures that there is recognition of everything that goes beyond the ILO. National and international NGOs and various social partners have started to plan and contribute to reducing the phenomenon of child labor independently of the ILO.
It can be said that the World Day Against Child Labor was highly encouraged by many countries, in addition to the role of organizations and groups that have contacts with the International Labor Organization in supporting the World Day Against Child Labor, as 60 countries participated. at the conference. Celebrating this day by carrying out many activities in this field with the participation of UNICEF, the social partners, business organizations from 30 countries and labor organizations from 38 countries began to participate in the activities that take place on the International Day Against Children. Employment, and it is noted that this figure is increasing, indicating a positive trend towards support for the International Day to Eradicate Child Labour.
There are several United Nations agencies that promote and encourage the celebration of the World Day Against Child Labor, the most important of which is UNICEF, which shares its activities with people on the home page of its website, and the Program International for the Elimination of Child Labour. Workforce. Child labor also adopted the abbreviation (IPEC) on the Internet and social networking sites such as Twitter to spread its message on this day, and ILO statistics showed that the number of visits to the page of the (IPEC) program has increased significantly. the ILO website, indicating an increase in global interest in International Labor Day Child Labour.
The International Labor Organization paid special attention to this day and it became the organization's main media event related to child labor, and the organization expanded the reach of partnerships to support its programs related to child labor using the energies of young people and from the visual perspective.
The 12-12 Partnership Initiative supports the World Day Against Child Labor by building partnerships with academia and the media, and strengthening its relationships with agencies to achieve the World Day goals of benefiting, motivating and draw on the experience of the ILO. Partners to reduce child labor in addition to benefiting from the participation of young people in the preparation of the activities included in the World Day Against Child Labor.
Topics for the International Day Against Child Labor
Since the launch of the World Day Against Child Labor in 2002, it has been in constant development and is celebrated annually, with each year choosing a theme that expresses and raises awareness of a form of child labour. Here are examples of some of the topics covered:
- Human trafficking in 2003.
- Domestic child labor in 2004.
- Agriculture in 2007 and education in 2008.
- Girls in 2009.
- Child labor in hazardous jobs in 2011.
- Human rights and social justice in 2012.
- End child labor in housework by 2013.
- The role of social protection in protecting children from going to work 2014.
- Keep children from working in the fields and focus on helping them achieve their dreams in 2019.
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