International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour: Save the Children’s action pledge

2021 marks the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (IYECL). With increasing poverty exacerbated by Covid-19, together with Alliance 8.7, Save the Children has pledged to accelerate progress towards ending child labour in all its forms by 2025:

In 2021, Save the Children will intensify its programming and advocacy to keep children safe from child labour and getting children safely back to school and learning. We will do this by focusing on the link between child protection and social protection systems and measures, supply chain monitoring and remediation mechanisms, while capturing and sharing learnings and promoting the best interests of the child.

These efforts will form Save the Children’s contribution to ending child labour in all its forms by 2025.