- The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization (ILO)-sanctioned holiday. It is also known as Anti Child Labour Day.
- The Significance of World Day Against Child Labour is to pay attention to the problem of child labour and to find ways to eradicate it.
- ILO, the United Nations body that regulates the world of work, launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to bring attention and join efforts to fight against child labour.
- In 1992, the ILO launched the International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor aimed at eliminating child labour throughout the world.
- Prevention of Child Labour also forms an important part of the sustainable development goals. The sustainable economic development goal includes the goal of abolishing child labour in all its forms by 2025.
- The UN has declared 2021 as the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.
- World Day Against Child Labor in 2021 will concentrate on the effect of COVID-19 emergency on child work.
- Efforts of 2021 will also propel momentum towards the 5th Global Conference on Child Labour (VGC) that will take place in South Africa in 2022.
