The Stop Child Labour Campaign

is an international campaign which seeks to eliminate child labour through the provision of full-time education.

The campaign has two core objectives:

1. To challenge and bring to an end, all forms of child labour and to challenge those who would argue for its retention.
2. To support the global campaign for education which seeks to provide universal primary education for all.

Latest News

Child Labour - A new book launched
April 2008: Despite the world's promises to care for every child, the scourge of child labour still leaves countless children deprived of their most basic rights. This book, just launched, is written for anyone interested in learning about child labour and how to take action against it.
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World Action Week - April 2008
"No more excuses", shout 1,000 children Seven and a half years after 185 governments met in Dakar to commit to Education for All by 2015, a new Global School Report ranks 178 governments on their education performances since 2000 a nd shows that their progress has been so slow that the Education for All goals will not be realised by 2115, let alone by 2015. Read more...

April 2008: Global Action Week 2008 is coming soon! In a little over a month, Education International affiliates and national coalitions of the Global Campaign for Education will highlight the need for universal quality education. Read more...

World Day Against Child Labour
12 June: This year the World Day against Child Labour will be marked around the world with activities to raise awareness that Education is the right response to child labour. We hope that the World Day will be widely supported by governments, employers and workers organisations, and all concerned with tackling child labour and promoting education. Read more...

Turkey must end child labour
Brussels, 10 December 2007: The government of Turkey has serious work to do when it comes to both legislation and practice dealing with the country’s trade unions and the conditions of its workers, a new ITUC report makes clear. Read more...

Report on the Roundtable Conference
On Tuesday 27th of November 2007 The Stop Child Labour – School is the Best Place to Work campaign organised a Roundtable in Brussels to discuss the EU’s contribution to strategies which aim to support education programmes and eliminate child labour in a number of African countries. Read more...