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. Each year on 12 June, the World Day brings together governments, employers and workers organizations, civil society, as well as millions of people from around the world to highlight the plight of child labourers and what can be done to help them.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by world leaders in 2015, include a renewed global commitment to ending child labour. Specifically, target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls on the global community to: "Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms". ( Source : UN web Site)
http://www.un.org/en/events/childlabourday/
This will be a great achievement if met! Child labour has been on alarming rate esp in Africa. Chlidren are being deprived of their civic rights, and thereby forced into dirty dealings like prostitution, slavery, etc.
I hope they will get the target before 2025
I hope so too! Before things become unbearable