In 2023 and 2024, a series of regional symposia were held in West Africa, East Africa (Uganda), and South and Southeast Asia to address the urgent issue of child labour through the area-based Approach. These symposia, organised by Global March Against Child Labour in close collaboration with WNCB, regional civil society organisations (CSOs), trade unions, […]

WNCB, Global March against Child Labour and Swatantrata Abhiyan Nepal present a joint call to action on promoting the Area Based Approach for the prevention and eradication of child labour. Child labour remains a pressing issue in South Asian and Southeast Asian countries. According to the ILO’s report of 2020, out of the 160 million […]

WNCB, Global March against Child Labour and the General Agricultural Workers’ Union of Ghana (GAWU) present a joint call to action on promoting the Area Based Approach for the prevention and eradication of child labour. With the increasing number of African countries becoming path finder countries, it is crucial to show progress and evidence on […]

Training manual and Guidance document for applying responsible business conduct through the application of the CRBPs in the formal and informal gold mining sector in Karamoja and Busia districts, with intentions of eliminating/reducing child labour in the gold value chain in Uganda and other WNCB implementing countries.

WNCB training module about Children’s Rights and Business Principles in Uganda.

Eliminating child labour requires an integrated approach, combining a supply chain approach with an area-based approach. The Work: No Child’s Business (WNCB) Alliance aims to address and prevent child labour by supporting companies to eliminate child labour in their supply chains, and by engaging all relevant stakeholders in the sourcing and production areas to tackle […]

In 2023, IKEA’s supplier Woodsland Tuyen Quang Joint Stock Company embarked on a young worker development programme to give young people access to decent work. The programme supports vulnerable groups, ensuring children’s rights align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly to combat child labour in Vietnam. It supports young workers (aged 15 to under […]

KIT Working Paper. Child labour remains a persistent human rights violation in international commodity supply chains, adversely impacting children’s physical and mental health and depriving them of educational opportunities (UNICEF, 2020). This holds true for the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire; a country that produces 43% of all cocoa worldwide (ICCO, 2022). A nationwide study […]

By the ILO. The research reviewed 614 studies on child labour and forced labour identified by the ILO’s “Research to Action” (RTA) project and an additional 40 recent studies to obtain a sample of 41 randomized and quasi-experimental impact evaluations suitable for the meta-analysis. As several outcomes and interventions are reported in these studies, 131 […]

Two exchange visits took place in Uganda. The WNCB teams from Mali and Côte d’Ivoire visited Uganda in September 2022. In June 2023 a WNCB from India visited Uganda. The purpose of these visits was to learn, share knowledge and thoughts among partners in order to understand how the WNCB alliance can collaborate more with […]