In recognition of World Day Against Child Labour next week, we would like to warmly invite you to the webinar to join US child labour survivor advocate, Jacqueline, and other youth representatives from around the world for a virtual conversation centered on the voices of children and youth with lived experience. Date: June 11, 2026 Time: 3:00 - 4:15 PM CEST | 10:00-11:15 PM JST Venue: Online Register here: https://lnkd.in/eNHAVCDb Organized by: Action against Child Exploitati

(Originally published: December 2025) Thank you always for your continued support. From November 24–26, 2025, three ACE staff members — Yuka Iwatsuki, Yukiko Sato, and I (Yuko Kawamura) — attended the 14th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights held in Geneva, Switzerland. This international conference brings together individuals working in this field from governments, international organizations, businesses, civil society organizations, trade unions, lawyers, and academia

Join ACE at the Online Side Event: Integrated, Multistakeholder Partnership Solutions to End Child Labour — Ghana’s Experience and Lessons for Cross-Country Learning Action against Child Exploitation (ACE) is pleased to co-host a side event at the 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour in Marrakesh. This session will spotlight innovative, integrated, multistakeholder approaches that have been implemented in Ghana to combat child labour, drawing on rich,

From left: Tim Ryan (Global March), Yuka Iwatsuki (ACE), Esther Ofori Agyemang (Ghana Ministry of Labour), Reid Maki (Child Labor Coalition), Jacqueline Aguilar (Former child labourer), Daniel Magalhaes (Tony’s Chocolonely) 2025 is the target year for ending all forms of child labour stated in SDG Target 8.7. In the light of this important year, Action against Child Exploitation (ACE) has organized an official off-site side event of the United Nations High-Level Political Fo

Dialogue on SDG Target 8.7 to End Child Labour by 2025: How can we achieve a child labour-free world? Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 Time: 13:15–14:30 (EDT) Venue: 777 United Nations Plaza, 8th Floor, New York Format: Hybrid (in-person & online) Language: English Despite the global pledge to eliminate child labour by 2025 under SDG Target 8.7, there are still 138 million children trapped in child labour—over half of them in sub-Saharan Africa. With the 2025 deadline appr

The Global March Against Child Labour invites you to a webinar, ”Area-Based Approach experiences towards tackling child labour". In this webinar, we share the experience of the area-based approach to preventing and eradicating child labour and protecting adolescent workers. Objective To share different experiences of implementing area-based approaches to prevent and eliminate child labour and protect adolescent workers in different regions and contexts with civil society orga

We would like to kindly invite you to a webinar on child labour in agriculture in Africa organized by FAO on October 3, 2022. Tomoko Shiroki, Vice President/Co-founder of ACE, will be speaking at the FAO webinar on October 3, 2022. The webinar includes two workshops that share lessons learned from research and past interventions. In the session "AUC Breakout Group: Identify priority actions in support of the Regional Action Plan for the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced

The 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour was organized by the Republic of South Africa, ILO and Alliance 8.7 in Durban between the 15th and 20th of May 2022. ACE co-organized an online side event, “Promoting an Integrated Area-based Approach to the Elimination of Child Labour: A Case of the Child Labour Free Zone in Ghana”, on May 19, and participated in many sessions online despite the time difference. This blog post includes: ◆Outline of the Conference ◆

The 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour is held in Durban, South Africa, from 15 to 20 May 2022. During the conference, ACE co-organises a side event with JICA and the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, the Government of Ghana. This side event intends to facilitate learning and discussion on the possibilities of the area-based approach as a solution to eliminate child labour particularly in countries where child labour is prevalent in agricultur

2021 is the UN's International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour. While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to overshadow other crises and issues, it serves to demonstrate the interconnected nature of social problems and consequently the need for collective and international responses. The ever-persistent prevalence of child labour, which has u-turned with numbers of child labourers rising since the pandemic began, is a good starting point. On Wednesday, March 17th

On Friday October 9th, ACE held a panel session for the C20 Summit 2020 on, “Promoting CSO-Business-Government Collaboration in the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour towards the Achievement of SDG 8.7”. Each experienced panellist brought to the table an innovative case study of collaboration from the three sectors, and from four corners of the globe. The C20 Summit 2020 was held in Saudi Arabia last month between October 6th-10th. The annual summit pro

Japan hosted a G20 Summit meeting for the first time in Osaka on June 28 and 29, 2019. ACE took this opportunity to conduct a series of advocacy activities for over a year. Please find a report on the activities below. The result was what we had expected: G20 showed their commitments to the elimination of child labour in the Leaders’ Declaration and the Ministerial Declaration of Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting. Policy recommendations from the Civil 20 (C20) As a mem