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World Day Against Child Labour 2025: Theme, history and global efforts
Every year, on June 12, World Day Against Child Labour is an occasion to promote awareness of child labour exploitation around the world and call for action. This day is an opportunity for us to refocus on the fact that children are forced into labour in exchange for an education. When we think of child labour, we think of children under 14 being forced to work in homes, shops, farms, factories and other communities because of poverty, coercion or Day Against Child Labour serves as a reminder for us to collectively take responsibility to ensure every child has access to education, safety and a nurturing upbringing. Despite ongoing efforts and significant progress, millions of children continue lives of hard work, under risky conditions which not only jeopardise their mental well-being, risk their lives but also their physical health. As a part of the campaign to create awareness about the day's purpose, experts also warned us about nutrition safety, especially when feeding fruits like litchi to young DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR 2025 THEME
The theme for this year is 'Progress is clear, but there's more to do: let's speed up our efforts!' It states that progress has been made so far to reduce and hopefully eliminate child labour. At the same time, the theme restates the need to intensify our global efforts in order to meet international 2024, nearly 138 million children were engaged in child progress has been made since 2020, millions are still being denied their right to learn, play and and simply be and @ilo are urging governments to take UNICEF (@UNICEF) June 11, 2025advertisementWORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR: OVERVIEWThe International Labour Organisation (ILO) first celebrated World Day Against Child Labour on June 12, 2002, at its headquarters in Geneva. Since then, it has been celebrated in all countries to acknowledge this continuing crisis. The year 2025 will represent the 21st anniversary of this DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR: PURPOSEThis day was initiated to facilitate growing worldwide demands to end child labour. In India, the government is now implementing a National Policy on Child Labour, adopted in 1987. This policy underlines the rehabilitation of affected children and addresses the root cause of child labour — poverty and the economic status of their families.
