The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the
thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi
magazine covers for Monday June 12th, 2023 – World Day Against Child Labour
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.
Let My Children Go: World Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour by Rene Wadlow
12 June is a red letter day on the UN agenda of events as the
World Day Against Child Labour. It marks the 12 June arrival in 1998
of hundreds of children in Geneva, part of the Global March against
Child Labour that had crossed a 100 countries to present their plight to
the International Labour Organization (ILO).
“We are hurting, and you can help us” was their message to
the assembled International Labour Conference which meets each year in
Geneva in June. One year later, in June, the ILO had drafted ILO
Convention N° 182 on child labour which 165 States have now ratified —
the fastest ratification rate in the ILO’s history.
ILO Convention N°182 sets out in article 3 the worst forms of child labour to be banned:
a) all forms of slavery or practices similar to slavery, such as the
sale and trafficking of children, debt bondage and serfdom and forced or
compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory recruitment of
children for use in armed conflict;
b) the use, procuring or offering of a child for prostitution, for
the production of pornography or for pornographic performances;
c) the use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities,
in particular for the production and trafficking of drugs as defined in
the relevant international treaties;
d) work which, by its nature or the circumstances in which it is
carried out, is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children.
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Our greatest responsibility… #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“There is no time left for repairing and patching shoes.
The roads do not end and the skins do not last.
demolition faster and more efficient,
Deeper sincerity and consistency with the truth!”
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #040 #cartoo by Paul Woods
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