The ILO has held more than 30 events around the world to campaign against child labour including a free concert, a live talk and a social media campaign in Asia.
This year's World Day Against Child Labour, June 12, focuses on child labour in supply chains. Its global message is "End Child Labour in Supply Chains: It’s Everyone's Business!”.
The ILO has held more than 30 events around the world to campaign against child labour including a free concert, a live talk and a social media campaign in Asia.
In Nepal
Members of the popular Nepali Rock Band, 1974 AD, and a group of talented artists have joined hands with the ILO to make a Nepali adaptation of the child labour theme song " ‘Til Everyone Can See", originally written by Mike Einziger, the American Grammy-nominated guitarist from the alternative rock band, Incubus, and violinist, Ann Marie Simpson. The group also staged a free concert in Lalitpur to launch the song.
‘Til Everyone Can See - the Nepali Version
In Thailand
Live talk by Mr Jesús Miguel Sanz, the Ambassador and Head of the European Union (EU) Delegation to Thailand. The ILO, in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand and NIST International School, marked the World Day with a live talk and a social media campaign.
The talk on: “Ending child labour and unacceptable forms of work in global supply chains” was live streamed to online audiences where youth were called upon to raise awareness about the issue and share their ideas for combatting child labour through participation in the ILO project’s vox pop campaign - #youthrespond.
Thai celebrities endorsed the campaign on Twitter and Instagram, using their fame to draw greater attention to the issue. Ratchanok Inthanon, Thailand’s first badminton world champion
In Viet Nam
A communication campaign to mark the World Day against Child Labour has been running from 1 to 18 June 2016, including news and articles, a video clip, a talk show and a workshop on child labour reduction and elimination in supply chains.
In Indonesia
The ILO, in collaboration with the United States Embassy in Jakarta, organized an event to increase awareness of the existence of child labour in the production of goods and services both for domestic markets and exports.
Asia and the Pacific remains the region with the largest number of child labourers – about 78 million, which is just under 10 per cent of the child population aged 5-17 years, or 1 in 10 children, according to the ILO Global Estimates on Child Labour 2000-2012.
