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Generation Safe & Healthy - End Child Labour

Children at their teens are engaged in hazardous painting and metal working job in a manufacturing unit of infamous Vano (a low cost motorized van operating in Bengal and adjoining states illegally) - less than 40 km from the state capital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. There are around 0.55 million children involved in child labour in the state of West Bengal alone.

 

World Day Against Child Labour 12 June

Each year on 12 June, the World Day brings together governments, employers and workers organizations, civil society, as well as millions of people from around the world to highlight the plight of child labourers and what can be done to help them.

 

This year, the World Day Against Child Labour and the World Day for Safety and Health at Work shine a spotlight on the global need to improve the safety and health of young workers and end child labour. More: www.ilo.org/ipec/Campaignandadvocacy/wdacl/lang--en/index...

 

Images of Bengal, India

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Uploaded on June 12, 2018
Taken on January 18, 2015