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This brief, prepared by the ILO, seeks to raise awareness on the root causes of child labour. Key findings: Increased efforts to eliminate child labour have yielded remarkable results in recent decades. However, the global progress against child labour has stalled for the first time in two decades and, without mitigation measures, the COVID-19 crisis is likely to push millions more children into child labour. Now more than ever, businesses – national and multinational, small, medium and large – have a critical role to play in tackling child labour and addressing its root causes. By

The brief highlights the interlinkages between child labour and human development and describes how ending economic deprivations, universalizing school education, expanding the coverage and improve the adequacy of social protection systems, and ensuring private sector engagement in protecting child rights can effectively eliminate child labour and promote inclusive growth and development. Evidence-informed, multi-sectoral, scalable solutions are presented that can ensure children are protected from economic exploitation and end the perpetuation of long-term cumulative deprivation. The brief

The 2021 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, Forced Labour and Forced Marriage, produced by ILO, Walk Free and IOM, provides updated estimates of the total number of adults and children in modern slavery, forced labour and forced marriage worldwide, as well as disaggregated figures by region and by sector of employment. See ICI's summary of the report here.

The Durban Call to Action is a document that emphasizes the need for urgent action to end child labour. It was adopted by Delegates at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour on 20 May 2022. Its goal is to accelerate progress on ending child labour, after years of reversal due to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and other global vulnerabilities. To achieve the shared goal of zero child labour, thousands of Delegates from governments, workers’ and employers’ organizations, UN agencies, civil society and regional organizations agreed to focus on specific key areas

This report by ILO and UNICEF provides an overview of the latest research on social protection and child labour. Key messages: Providing families with direct assistance can help alleviate the stressors linked to poverty and vulnerability that underlie the use of child labour. Carefully designed, social protection systems can help reduce child labour as part of an integrated set of policy measures. Many countries have adopted and strengthened their social protection systems in recent years, but global coverage is still too low. Many social protection systems are not designed to cover children