2019 – Posted in: Press Information Bureau

World Day Against Child Labour- 2019

(Ministry of Women and Child Development)

WHAT

The Union Minister for Women and Child Development, inaugurated the National Consultation Workshop on Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Rescue and Rehabilitation of Child Labour to mark the “World Day Against Child Labour- 2019” in New Delhi.

The workshop was organised by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR).

THEME

Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!

THE DAY

In 2019, the International Labour Organization is celebrating 100 years of advancing social justice and promoting decent work.
Yet today, 152 million children are still in child labour.
Child labour occurs in almost all sectors, yet 7 out of every 10 of these children are working in agriculture.
On this World Day Against Child Labour will look back on progress achieved over a 100 years of ILO support to countries on tackling child labour.
The UN Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 set by the international community calling for an end to child labour in all its forms by 2025.

CHILD LABOUR

The term “child labour” is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.

It refers to work that:

is mentally, physically, socially or morally dangerous and harmful to children; and
interferes with their schooling by: depriving them of the opportunity to attend school; obliging them to leave school prematurely; or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long and heavy work.

Source: PIB

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