When was the first World Day Against Child Labour Celebrated?

The day is used to spread awareness about the harmful mental and physical problems faced by children forced into child labor, all over the world.

World Day Against Child Labor, 12 June

A huge number of young ladies and young men worldwide are participating in work that denies them of satisfactory training, well-being, recreation, and fundamental opportunities, disregarding their freedoms. Of these children, the greater part are presented to the most terrible types of child work like work in risky conditions, bondage, or different types of constrained work, illegal exercises, for example, drug dealing and prostitution, as well as contribution in furnished struggle.

The International Labor Organization (ILO) sent off the main World Day Against Child Labor in 2002 as a manner to feature the predicament of these children. The day, which is seen on June twelfth, is planned to act as an impetus for the developing worldwide development against child work, reflected in the tremendous number of endorsements of ILO Convention No. 182 on the most obviously awful types of child work and ILO Convention No. 138 on the base age for business.

The World Day Against Child Labor gives the potential chance to acquire further help of individual states and that of the ILO social accomplices, common society and others, including schools, youth and ladies' gatherings, and the media, in the mission against child work.