{"id":49900,"date":"2025-06-12T12:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49900"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T08:48:56","slug":"world-day-against-child-labour-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-day-against-child-labour-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"World Day Against Child Labour 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Day Against Child Labour Latest News<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Day Against Child Labour is observed every year on June 12. The day serves as a reminder of the urgent need to protect children from exploitation and uphold their rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About World Day Against Child Labour<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Day Against Child Labour is a global observance marked on June 12 every year, serving as a crucial reminder to build a world free of child labour, where children worldwide are not forced into work at the expense of their education and well-being.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>History: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The International Labour Organization (ILO) first observed World Day Against Child Labour on June 12, 2002, at its Geneva headquarters.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, it has been marked globally to shine a light on this ongoing crisis. The year 2025 marks the 21st anniversary of this important observance.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Theme:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The theme for this year is<\/span><b> \u2018Progress is clear, but there\u2019s more to do: let\u2019s speed up efforts!\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It reflects the progress made so far in reducing child labour, while also emphasizing the need to intensify global efforts to meet international goals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, the government has implemented a National Policy on Child Labour since 1987. This policy emphasises both the rehabilitation of affected children and the need to tackle the root cause \u2014 poverty \u2014 by improving the economic well-being of their families.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Child Labour Latest Data and Trends<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Global Child Labour:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 2024, nearly 138 million children were engaged in child labour worldwide, with 54 million in hazardous work. Africa has the highest child labour rates (72 million children), followed by Asia and the Pacific (62 million children).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>India: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2011, India&#8217;s Census data showed that 10.1 million children, or 3.9% of the total child population aged 5-14, were working, either as &#8220;main workers&#8221; or &#8220;marginal workers&#8221;.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This data represents a decrease from the 1.26 crore working children in 2001, but the issue persists, with poverty, lack of education, and economic distress identified as key drivers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SDG Target 8.7 aims to end child labour in all its forms by 2025, but this target is unlikely to be met due to persistent challenges.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/when-is\/world-day-against-child-labour-2025-date-theme-quotes-significance-10061706\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Day Against Child Labour is a global observance marked on June 12 every year, serving as a crucial reminder to build a world free of child labour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-49900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"tag-world-day-against-child-labour","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}