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Again this year UNI Africa joins in the activities organized as part of World Day Against Child Labour, celebrated on 12 June each year. This is an opportunity for our affiliates to participate in this campaign emphasizing the right of all children to be protected against child labour and against all violations of fundamental human rights.



The 2nd UNI Africa Youth Conference in Hammamet, Tunisia, took as a resolution to fight against child labour.



The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights highlights the right to education by proclaiming that “Everyone has the right to education.”These children are at work should be in school to be educated and acquire skills that prepare them for decent work as adults. Upon entering the labour market prematurely, they are deprived of an education and training that can decisively help these children, their families and communities to break the cycle of poverty. The children involved in worst forms of child labour may also be exposed to suffering physical, psychological or moral that can cause long-term damage to their lives.



The ILO Convention No. 138 on Minimum Age, 1973, requires Member States to establish in their legislation a minimum age for employment which shall not be less than the age at which schooling ends mandatory in any case in 15 years.



The ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999, calls to "take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of worst forms of child labour and as a matter of urgency ".



Although the ILO conventions on child labour are among the Conventions of the ILO's most widely ratified, it is necessary that countries that have not yet ratified them to do so, and ensure their effective implementation.

UNI affiliates in Africa, please add your voice to that of the ILO for ratification is complete.