ILO IPEC+ Global Flagship Programme Implementation

The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour (IPEC+) recognizes that these unacceptable forms of work deny workers their basic human rights at work and that they share root causes of poor governance, discrimination and social exclusion, family and community poverty and lack of access to decent work and to the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining. Ensuring the occupational safety and health (OSH) of children above the minimum working age is a critical strategy for protecting them from child labour. Early intervention addressing OSH concerns can in some instances help prevent work situations from degenerating into situations of forced labour.

IPEC+ Global Flagship Programme works from the village to the global stage with the ILO’s constituents (governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations), as well as with enterprises and small producers’ organizations, NGOs and civil society organizations, to promote the eradication of child labour and forced labour and the realization of all fundamental rights at work, with a focus on:

• the rural and informal economies;
• enterprises and global supply chains;
• countries in crisis and fragile situations.