International bodies

International Labour Organization (ILO)

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.

What it rests on

Source: ILO · read 15 October 2026

Initiatives it leads

Initiatives it funds