CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -ILO launches first “World Day Against Child Labour” 12 June 2002. GENEVA (ILO News)-The first World Day Against Child Labour will be observed worldwide on 12 June 2002.

Detailed explanation-2: -World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the first World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 as a way to highlight the plight of these children.

Detailed explanation-3: -Week of Action against Child Labour, 3-12 June 2022 This year’s World Day Against Child Labour will be celebrated with a “Week of Action against Child Labour”, marked from 3-12 June 2022.

Detailed explanation-4: -The regulation of child labour began from the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution. The first act to regulate child labour in Britain was passed in 1803. As early as 1802 and 1819 Factory Acts were passed to regulate the working hours of workhouse children in factories and cotton mills to 12 hours per day.

Detailed explanation-5: -ON THE 8TH DECEMBER, 2006. 3. Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, child labour in any form is hereby abolished.