KARACHI (NPTV/UN): The World Day Against Child Labor (WDACL) is being observed across the globe on Wednesday (12th of June, 2024).

According to (2018) statistics, there are 218 million children between the age of 5-17 years in employment globally while 152 million children, among them, are victims of child labor and, half of them, 73 million work in hazardous child labor.

Since the theme for 2024 is Let’s Act On Our Commitments: End Child Labour! On this day the world is calling for:

-The effective implementation of the ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour;

-Reinvigorated national, regional and international action to end child labor in all of its forms, including worst forms, through adopting national policies and addressing root causes as called upon in the 2022 Durban Call to Action;

-Universal ratification and effective implementation of ILO Convention No. 138 on the Minimum Age, which, together with the universal ratification of ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour achieved in 2020, would provide all children with legal protection against all forms of child labor.

Since 2000, for nearly two decades, the world had been making steady progress in reducing child labor.

But over the past few years, conflicts, crises and the pandemic, have plunged more families into poverty – and forced millions more children into child labor.

Economic growth has not been sufficient, nor inclusive enough, to relieve the pressure that too many families and communities feel and that makes them resort to child labor.

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