End Child Labor: Unite for Children’s Rights and a Better Future
On Child Labor Day, and indeed every day, organizations like the ILO, UNICEF, Save the Children, and numerous other NGOs and civil society groups work tirelessly to prevent and eliminate child labor.
End Child Labor: Protect Childhoods, Ensure Futures
Every June 12th, people take part in World Day Against Child Labour. Since the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched it in 2002, this observance reminds everyone about the many children across the globe who are missing out on their childhood, right to education, and basic rights due to such practices.
Its main aim is to bring attention to child labor all over the world and collect effort to address this problem. Participants from governments, workers and employers, civil society, and various individuals gather at the conference to address the problem of child labor and look for lasting answers. Valencia also calls attention to Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals and reminds us of its urgency as it underlines the steps to be taken to end forced labor, stop modern slavery and human trafficking, and crack down on the worst forms of child labor.
According to the ILO, child labor is any kind of work that takes away children’s childhood, opportunities, dignity, and hurts their health and growth. Such work covers activities that are dangerous or harmful in any way, and also work that keeps children away from school, either forcing them to drop out early or to attend classes while also working grueling hours.
Child labor affects people across the globe in a major way. In 2020, at the start of the year, about 160 million children took part in child labor, which was almost one in ten children. Almost half of these children were involved in hazardous jobs, which greatly threatened their health and wellbeing.
Child labour is certainly an indication of poverty as well as inaccessible quality education and weak social protection systems. It perpetuates poverty through a vicious cycle for households as children are unable to gain the skills and education to obtain decent work as adults.
The dire effects on child labourers are geographic. They face increased risks of injury, illness, and psychological harm. Their access to educational opportunities is restricted, which impacts future opportunities and contributes to intergenerational poverty, emphasising the need for additional investments and raise child labour as they are also sources of other extreme forms of exploitation and slavery including trafficked persons.
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Despite the amazing progress made to address child labour, the innate nature of child labour and increasible evidence of increased poverty through the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises demonstrated that there is a lack of commitment, dropping further and deeper into inappropriate and highly exploitative work. Then we start again and action must be sustained.
On their end, the methods include; investing in social protection; focus on access to quality education; provide decent work opportunities for their parents and caregivers; create better protections through legislation; and crucially raise the public profile of child labour.
Ratification and implementation of ILO Conventions No. 138 Minimum Age and No. 182 Worst Forms of Child Labour still matters – End Child Labour and invest in children and youth.
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