The bodies that measure child labour, set the rules on it and work against it. Each entry says what the organisation does in its own published words, with the page it was read from.
The UN agency for labour standards. It defines child labour as work that is hazardous to a child’s health and development, demands too many hours, or is done by children who are too young, and calls the issue “at the core of the ILO mission”. It holds the two child-labour conventions, C138 and C182, and publishes the global estimates with UNICEF.
An independent expert of the UN Human Rights Council. The mandate was created on 9 October 2025 by resolution 60/25, combining the earlier mandates on slavery and on trafficking, and operates from 1 May 2026. Its scope names the worst forms of child labour. The last report of the earlier slavery mandate was on the worst forms of child labour.
The UN agency for children. It co-publishes the global child-labour estimates with the ILO and holds the household-survey series behind the SDG 8.7.1 indicator. It describes child labour as work that children are too young to perform or that, by its nature or circumstances, can be hazardous.
Listed here for child trafficking only. Its Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, published every two years, counts detected victims by age; the 2024 edition reported child trafficking and trafficking for forced labour as rising.
Publishes two of the sources in this index: the yearly Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor and the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. In 2020 it gave its mission as combating international child labour, forced labour and trafficking. Its mission page as read on 15 October 2026 names forced labour and does not name child labour, and its project database lists no child-labour projects.
A global partnership of governments, UN agencies, employers, unions and civil society, named after SDG target 8.7. It describes itself as taking measures to eradicate forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour. Since 2018 it has run a Pathfinder Strategy, under which countries commit to accelerate action.
A US coalition formed in November 1989 after a Capitol Hill forum on the exploitation of children at work. It campaigns on child labour in the United States and abroad, and in April 2025 reported the termination of more than $500 million in ILAB grants.
A network of civil-society organisations, unions and activists that grew out of a march launched on 17 January 1998 and ending in Geneva that June. It states its mission as addressing the inequalities that let child labour persist. In 2022 the US Department of Labor awarded it $4 million for its Catalyst project in Uganda, Peru and Nepal.
Launched in 2007 by the ILO, FAO, IFAD, IFPRI and the IUF food and farm workers’ union federation, to involve agricultural organisations in ending child labour in agriculture. It steers the Alliance 8.7 Action Group on Agriculture.
A campaigning organisation on slavery. It separates child work, child labour and child slavery, and states that child labour is not slavery but hinders children’s education and development.
A Dutch organisation working on South Asian supply chains. It says it prioritises the most vulnerable workers and works to eliminate child labour, forced labour and discrimination based on caste or gender.
The Indian movement founded by Kailash Satyarthi, now registered as the Association for Voluntary Action. It says it partners with governments and communities to prevent child exploitation and strengthen child protection across India.
Founded in 2000. It describes its work as community empowerment, survivor leadership, research, corporate engagement, policy reform and advocacy against forced labour, trafficking and child exploitation.
Founded in 1986 as the International Labor Rights Forum. It says it has stood with worker movements and unions advocating for an economy free of forced and child labour.
An investigative human-rights organisation. It says it works to end the worst forms of child labour and to protect children from jobs that interfere with their health, safety and education. Its child-labour reports cover tobacco farming, gold mining and domestic work.
Founded by the Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi. It lists child labour first among the issues it works on, with child trafficking, child marriage, child sexual abuse, education and livelihoods for parents.
An international development organisation with a programme on artisanal and small-scale mining. It states that its programming has reduced child labour at mine sites where it works in Colombia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo; that is Pact’s own assessment.
A children’s rights organisation. It calls economic exploitation and hazardous work key violations of children’s rights and says it has worked for decades to protect children from them.
A child-protection organisation that names two focuses: ending child labour and online sexual exploitation of children.
A business association for retailers and brands. Its BSCI audit system assesses suppliers on 13 performance areas, two of which are no child labour and special protection for young workers.
A cotton sustainability standard. Its Decent Work Strategy of 2022 states that international labour standards on eradicating child labour apply even where a country’s legislation is weak.
A foundation funded by the tobacco industry that works on child labour in tobacco growing. It states that since 2011 it has supported more than 1.4 million children, farmers and families; that figure is its own.
An alliance of companies, unions and NGOs. Clause 4 of its Base Code states that child labour shall not be used and that there shall be no new recruitment of child labour.
A multi-stakeholder initiative on artisanal cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It says it is working with cooperatives and civil society to build a child-labour referral system for mine-site operators.
A multi-stakeholder body of companies, universities and civil society. Its code bars employing anyone under 15 or under the age for completing compulsory education, whichever is higher, and prohibits hazardous work and the worst forms of child labour.
A certification system for farm products. Its human-rights policy names child labour among the most salient risks in agricultural supply chains, and its producer organisations run youth-inclusive community-based monitoring and remediation.
A certification body for rugs and other handmade goods. GoodWeave UK says it works with retailers, importers and consumers to end child labour in global supply chains, with a focus on carpet-weaving communities in India and Nepal.
A foundation of cocoa and chocolate companies and civil society. It works on child labour and forced labour in cocoa-growing areas of West and Central Africa, and sets the core criteria for Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems used by its members.
A certification body for farms and forests. Its 2020 certification programme replaced a simple prohibition of child labour with an “assess-and-address” approach that requires farms to find and remediate cases with their supply chain, government and civil society.
An industry body founded in 2004 by electronics companies. Its code states that child labour shall not be used at any stage of manufacturing, with a child defined as anyone under 15, under the age for completing compulsory education, or under the national minimum age, whichever is greatest.
An industry and civil-society initiative on mica, used in cosmetics, paint and electronics. It states its mission as eliminating child labour and improving working conditions in mica supply chains, starting in India and Madagascar.
A research organisation that ran the US-funded surveys of child labour in cocoa-growing areas of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Its 2020 report covered the 2018 to 2019 season; the two governments raised methodological concerns, recorded in the report’s annex.
The global federation of teachers’ unions. Its 2024 World Congress called on members to advocate for quality public education as the best way to eradicate all forms of child labour.