The International Labor Organization (ILO) warned this Friday that around 1,500 million children lack the financial support to ensure their social protection.
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During the Fifth World Conference on the Elimination of Child Labor, the international organization agreed on the Durban Call to Action, which outlines the commitments that must be met to end child labor when there are only three years left to reach the goal of its complete elimination achieve by 2025.
Among the key policies identified in the report is strengthening the prevention and elimination of child labour, including its worst forms, including forced labour, modern slavery and human trafficking.
They also underlined, as fundamental measures to realize children’s right to education, to ensure universal access to free, compulsory, quality, equitable and inclusive education and training; and to achieve universal access to social protection.
The event included, for the first time in the history of holding global forums on child labour, the participation of child delegates who noted that policy makers are redoubling their efforts to curb this type of child abuse and highlighted progress on the issue.
7,000 online participants and more than 1,000 delegates from governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, United Nations (UN) agencies, civil society and regional organizations were accredited for this conference in the Durban region of South Africa.