Hello folks, today is World Day Against Child Labour, you know we are so lucky to have access to education whereas so many under privileged ones are not so lucky

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.

Around the world, large numbers of children are engaged in paid or unpaid domestic work in the home of a third party or employer. These children can be particularly vulnerable to exploitation. Their work is often hidden from the public eye, they may be isolated, and they may be working far away from their family home. Stories of the abuse of children in domestic work are all too common. On the 2013 World Day Against Child Labour the ILO calls for:

?span style="font: 7pt/normal \"Times New Roman\" font-size-adjust: none font-stretch: normal">         Legislative and policy reforms to ensure the elimination of child labour in domestic work and the provision of decent work conditions and appropriate protection to young workers in domestic work who have reached the legal working age.

?span style="font: 7pt/normal \"Times New Roman\" font-size-adjust: none font-stretch: normal">         Ratify ILO Convention No. 189 concerning decent work for domestic workers and its implementation along with the ILO?s child labour Convention. 1

?span style="font: 7pt/normal \"Times New Roman\" font-size-adjust: none font-stretch: normal">         Action to build the Worldwide movement against child labour and to build the capacity of domestic workers organizations to address child labour.

To mark World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO publishes a report outlining the abuses suffered by millions of children working in family homes.

An estimated 10.5 million children worldwide – most of them under age – are working as domestic workers in people?s homes, in hazardous and sometimes slavery-like conditions, says the ILO.

Six and a half million of these child labourers are aged between five and 14 years-old. More than 71 per cent are girls.

According to the latest figures in a new ILO report, Ending Child labour in domestic work, they work in the homes of a third party or employer, carrying out tasks such as cleaning, ironing, cooking, gardening, collecting water, looking after other children and caring for the elderly.

Vulnerable to physical, psychological and sexual violence and abusive working conditions, they are often isolated from their families, hidden from the public eye and become highly dependent on their employers. Many might end up being commercially sexually exploited.

?The situation of many child domestic workers not only constitutes a serious violation of child rights, but remains an obstacle to the achievement of many national and international development !--object--ives,? said Constance Thomas, Director of the ILO?s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).

Source: http://www.un.org/en/events/childlabourday/

: http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Campaignandadvocacy/wdacl/lang==en/index.htm

LET US ALL TAKE A PLEDGE TO EDUCATE AT LEAST ONE CHILD IN YOUR COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY MAY EVENTUALLY BECOME A RESPONSIBLE PART OF SOCIETY