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A view from Yangon
Steve Marshall By Steve Marshall, ILO’s liaison officer in Yangon, Myanmar A view from Yangon: ILO’s liaison officer Steve Marshall talks about the changes he is witnessing in Myanmar Shwedagon Pagoda...
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Turning childhood dreams into a decent future
Simrin Singh, senior specialist on child labour in the ILO’s Decent Work Technical Support Team for East and South-East Asia and the Pacific In a hot and bustling Jakarta suburb, a group of young...
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A big team with a clear goal
Minette Rimando, Information Officer, ILO Country Office for the Philipines. The referee blows the whistle, indicating that the match is about to start. As I help my 10-year old son put his goalie...
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‘I want to be President’ – Malawi’s little voices against child labour
Nadine Osseiran, Programme and Operations Officer for eastern and southern Africa at the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) When you talk of Malawi, many people...
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Hitting the right note for the Red Card to Child Labour Campaign
Rosalind Yarde, acting head of the ILO’s Advocacy and Campaigns unit The launch date was set in stone. 12 June; World Day Against Child Labour; opening day of the football World Cup. With just months...
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From child labour to elite academy
Emmanuel Amon, 18, was removed from child labour with help from ILO’s Country Programme in Malawi. He recently completed his studies at one of Malawi’s most prestigious schools. A tobacco plantation...
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South-South Cooperation: a path to eliminating child labour in Latin America
Anita Amorim, ILO Senior External Relations Specialist: South-South and UN Affairs The Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) is an annual event organized by the UN System to showcase...
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Children belong in school, not in supply chains
Benjamin Smith, Senior Officer for Corporate Social ResponsibilityInternational Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour The importance of employers in the worldwide movement against child labour...
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“What I learned from a day at the docks with Thailand’s labour inspectors”
Kuanruthai Siripatthanakol, National Project Coordinator (Thailand), GMS TRIANGLE Project In an icy cold room in the fishing port of Samut Sakhon, a labour inspector reads over the payroll ledger of a...
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“I was in child labour. Now I’m getting my MBA.”
Usman Bilal, a former child labourer, is an MBA student and child-labour activist. When I was young, I lived in my village in Pakistan with my father, mother, three brothers and four sisters. My father...
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How the ILO is helping to end forced labour in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry
Beate Andrees,Chief of the Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch Nearly a quarter of the adult population in Uzbekistan—over three million people—take part in the country’s cotton harvest...
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In their shoes – An interactive game on Decent Work
Rena Gashumba, Advocacy and Campaigns Officer, ILO Communication and Public Information (DCOMM) It’s 8:30 am, a school day and there are 20 ten-year olds waiting excitedly for the game to begin. Their...
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C182: Time to get our hands dirty
Francesco d’Ovidio, Officer in Charge, FUNDAMENTALS * On World Humanitarian Day, the ILO’s Francesco D’Ovidio looks back at his experiences working to end child labour, and some of the inspiring...
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