The term ‘child labour’ is defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO) as “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to their mental and physical development… In the most extreme forms, child labour exposes children to serious danger, removes them from their families and involves their active enslavement.”
The global issue of child labour was brought once more to the foreground at the third international Conference on Child Labour, held in Brasilia between 8th and 10th October.