Today, according to the ILO's most recent estimates, over 132 million boys and girls, aged 5-14 years old, work in agriculture around the world.  They are part of an estimated 246 million child labourers globally. Few countries and sectors totally escape this terrible blight in the 21st century.  

ILO, Bureau of Library and Information Service, Child Labour Statistics

Global March against Child Labour Resource Centre

In this section you are provided with vast resources on child labour. Global March has attempted to compile reports and articles from across the world, and though the list is not exhaustive.

UNICEF Statistics

This page provides information on key UNICEF statistical databases

World Bank, Child Labour statistics

This page contains World bank resources, as well as useful links to internet sources of information on child labour and related issues.

Documents and Reports

“Child labour, basic education and international donor policies: A challenge to conventional Wisdom”, Campaign Stop Child Labour - School is the best place to work - The campaign ‘Stop Child Labour – School is the best place to work’ is a joint effort of ten organisations in six European countries: Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and The Netherlands (Report)

Free the Slaves: “Rebuilding Lives: an introduction to promising practices in the rehabilitation of freed slaves” (Report)

‘Action Plan for Companies to Combat Child Labour’ by the campaign ‘Stop Child Labour – School is the best place to work’- The campaign ‘Stop Child Labour – School is the best place to work’ is a joint effort of ten organisations in six European countries: Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and The Netherlands, February 2008 (Report) 

Aidan McQuade, Director, Anti-Slavery International - Reflections on visit to International Cocoa Initiative programmes in West Africa, February 2008 (Report)

Oversight of public and private initiatives to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the cocoa sector in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, Tulane University First annual Report, November 2007 (Report)

Addressing child labour through education: A study of alternative/complementary initiatives in quality education delivery and their suitability for cocoa-farming communities. Submitted to ICI by Martina Odonkor, Frontier Analysis Consulting Associates Ltd., March 2007 (Summary and Report)

Labour Migration Patterns and Child Trafficking from the Upper-East Region of Ghana – Findings and Recommendations from a joint field mission by Amidu Ibrahim-Tanko,(Partnerships for Sustainable Development) and  Katherine Owen (International Cocoa Initiative), August 2005 (Report)

Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of West Africa A synthesis of findings in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria, Under the auspices of USAID/USDOL/ILO, Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, August 2002 (Report)