Child
Rights Glossary : R
RED CARD CAMPAIGN
Football is the world's most popular sport. It galvanizes people
throughout the world. For young people, in particular, it offers
excitement and inspiration.
This campaign aims to seize the opportunity offered by the African
Cup of Nations 2002 to make the public aware of the harsh reality
of child labour and to encourage people to support the global
movement against child labour.
This initiative, which started in Africa, progressively extended
to Latin America, Asia and Europe. Because of the huge attention
paid to major football tournaments. The ILO built partnerships
around these events because of the unique opportunity they offer
to reach unprecedented numbers of people throughout the world
with a simple message: "Red Card to Child Labour."
The ultimate event in this campaign hopefully will be to celebrate
the universal ratification of the convention against the worst
forms of child labour at the World Cup football tournament in
2006.
In cooperation with hundreds of partner organizations around
the world, the ILO, via its International Programme on the Elimination
of Child Labour (IPEC), is active in 75 countries, removing children
from abusive child labour, providing them with rehabilitation
and education and providing their families with income-generating
alternatives.
At the same time, IPEC is campaigning globally to raise awareness
about child labour and to persuade governments to adopt international
legal standards that commit countries to immediately ban the "worst
forms" of child labour. In less than three years, more than
100 governments have ratified this international convention on
the worst forms of child labour, including more than 30 in Africa.
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