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Here’s how we make 2021, the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour, count Around the world, laws to prohibit child labour remain under-enforced and under-resourced. (ILO/Phan Hien ) 7 January 2021 (ILO/Phan Hien ) After the tumult and uncertainty unleashed by the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, the new year once again signals fresh hope and resolve. For the global anti-child labour community, we are particularly looking forward to 2021 being the International Year for the Eliminati...

Date Time Universal protection against worst forms of child labour What is the current child labour situation? Countries have made a lot of progress in the last two decades. Global child labour rates have come down from 246 million children in 2000 to 152 million children in 2016. However, this figure is still very high, particularly as half of these children are in hazardous work, defined as a worst form of child labour. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to stall or even reverse the progres...