Anti-Child Labour Day

Held on : 12th June

Anti-Child Labour Day is observed on 12 June every year. The ILO - International Labour Organization, the UN body which regulates the world of work initiated this observance in the year 2002. Trafficking happens in nearly all countries of the world. As a result, more than 1.2 million children are living away from their homes and families with people who force them to work. The World Day Against Child Labour provides an opportunity to gain further support of individual governments and that of the ILO social partners, civil society and others, including schools, youth and woman's groups as well as the media, in the campaign against child labour.

Under international law, trafficking is a crime. Through coercion, deception, and the threat or use of violence, people are forced into a range of exploitative work. Where children are concerned, it makes no difference if they leave voluntarily or are coerced -- where there is movement of children in order to use them as unpaid, or minimally waged labour, there is trafficking.

Trafficking is not a single action rather, it is a series of events that takes place in the child's home community, at transit points and at final destinations. Whenever a child is relocated and exploited, it is trafficking. And those who contribute to it - recruiters, middlemen, document providers, transporters, corrupt officials, employers and service providers - are all traffickers.

Alternate Name - World Day Against Child Labour

Holiday Status - It is not a Holiday