Education plays a major role in providing children with life skills and future job opportunities. Children who are in school are less likely to fall victims of child labour. Illustration: ILO
Resources
Key Documents
- Declaration of the Rights of the Child (A/RES/1386 (XIV), 20 November 1959)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (A/RES/44/25, 20 November 1989)
- ILO Convention No. 138 on the minimum age for admission to employment (1973)
- ILO Convention No. 182 concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child Labour(1999)
- ILO Convention No. 189 concerning decent work for domestic workers (2011)
- A World Fit for Children (A/RES/S-27/2, 10 May 2002)
Other Documents
- United Nations World Youth Report
- Secretary-General's Reports
- General Assembly Documents
- All Documents related to the subject
United Nations System
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- 100 years of ILO action to tackle child labour"
- ILO Publications on child labour
- National child labour survey reports
- eLearning tools on child labour
- Child labour and educational disadvantage - A review by UN Special Envoy on Global Education, Gordon Brown
- Child labour and education: progress, challenges and future directions
- IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour (Buenos Aires, November 2017)
- The Hague Global Child Labour Conference (May 2010)
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
- Child labour standards
- Youth employment
- Tackling Child Labour: From commitment to action
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
