Eradicating dangerous child labor in agriculture will be a big focus of the International Labour Organization, working with other organizations like FAO in 2007.

ILO has started to cooperate with international food organizations including FAO as a follow up to a new ILO’s Global Approach on Child Labour. In 2007, ILO’s World Day Against Child Labour that is celebrated on the 12th of June each year, will focus on Agriculture and call for the eradication of Child Labour in 2016.

Mr. Guy Thijs is Director of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, at the International Labour Organization in Geneva. He recently took part in an interagency consultation (FAO, IFAD, WFP, IFPRI, IPGRI, IFAP, IUF), in Rome, to discuss a co-ordinated awareness campaign against Child Labour in agriculture in 2007. He explains: Thijs Sound Bite (2 min MP3)