A.  World Day Against Child Labour
1.0 Theme: World Day Against Child Labour (12 June 2007) The focus this year is "Elimination of child labour in agriculture". 
Other themes in earlier years have been:
a. Unconditional Worst Forms of Child Labour-2004
b. Child domestic work -2005
c. Child labour in mining-2006
d. Education is the right response to child labour-2008
1.1 Aim: The event is aimed at mobilizing people around the world against child labour and its worst forms, reflecting local cultures and customs, while encouraging the participation of authorities, the media, civil society and the public at large.
1.2 Convention: Convention No.182. (Worst Forms of Child Labour)

1.3 Brief Background year's themes: 

a. 2007 Theme: Worldwide, agriculture is the sector where the largest percentage of working children is found - nearly 70 percent. Over 132 million girls and boys aged 5 to 14 years old often work from sun up to sun down on farms and plantations, planting and harvesting crops, spraying pesticides, and tending livestock.

b. 2008 Theme: Education is the right response to child labour.This year the World Day against Child Labour will be marked around the world with activities to raise awareness that 
§  Education for all children at least to the minimum age of employment. 
§  Education policies that address child labour by provision of properly resourced quality education and skills training. 
§  Education to promote awareness on the need to tackle child labour.

The ILO has estimated that some 165 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour. Many of these children work long hours, often in dangerous conditions.

2.0 Information Courtesy of :

a. Human Rights Education Associates- www.hrea.org.
b. International Labour Organisation-IPEC www.ilo.org /ipec/Campaignandadvocacy

Child labour is closely associated with poverty. Many poor families are unable to afford school fees or other school costs. The family may depend on the contribution that a working child makes to the household’s income, and place more importance on that than on education. And when a family has to make a choice between sending either a boy or girl to school, it is often the girl who loses out.

More than ever today, children need a good quality education and training if they are to acquire the skills necessary to succeed in the labour market. However, in many countries the schools which are accessible to the poor families are under-resourced and inadequate. Poor facilities, over-sized classes, and lack of trained teachers lead to low standards of education.

In the Millennium Development Goals the United Nations and the broader international community set targets of ensuring that by 2015 all boys and girls complete a full course of primary education and that there is gender parity in education.