CHILD LABOUR

World Day Against Child Labour

• The World Day Against Child Labour is observed on 12thJune every year around the world.
  
  
• The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it.
  
  
• The 2021 World Day Against Child Labour focuses on action taken for the 2021 International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour. It is the first World Day since the universal ratification of the ILO’s Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour.
  
  
• Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for ending child labour in all its forms by 2025.