Conference on eradicating child labour

The conference on Zero worst forms of child labour by 2016 will be inaugurated on June 21, with the launch of the Global Report on Child Labour at Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel, Colombo.

More than 450 delegates from 80 member states of the International Labour Organization, met in The Hague on May 10 and 11 and agreed on a global Road Map aimed at 'substantially increasing' global efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016.

In response to this global commitment, during this Conference in The Hague, the Sri Lankan Government represented by Labour Relations and Productivity Promotion Minister Gamini Lokuge pledged to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016. The Government also presented a Road Map for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour by 2016, which details a process of mainstreaming into state interventions the prevention, withdrawal, rehabilitation and reintegration of children who have been engaged in the worst forms of child labour.