World Day Against Child Labour: fair trade free from child labour

The "#" campaignTheUnescapeRoomlaunched by UNICEF opens our eyes to the terrible reality of child exploitation. It is in our hands to change this reality. The fair trade empowers us and makes us protagonists of this change. It guarantees that there is no child labour in the production of its products.

World Day Against Child Labour

12 June is World Day Against Child Labour. Millions of children around the world are engaged in some form of hazardous or exploitative work. Usually at the expense of their health and education and, above all, their general well-being and development.

In order to raise awareness about child exploitation, UNICEF Spanish Committee launched the "#" campaign.TheUnescapeRoom. With this social experiment, they want to put us in the shoes of children working in the most extreme conditions.

Fair trade is an effective tool to eradicate child labour. The eradication of child labour is one of its fundamental principles. Thus, it ensures that no child performs work that affects his or her physical, mental, social or spiritual development. And thus interfere with their education or have abusive, dangerous and harmful conditions that endanger their health and integrity.

UNICEF estimates that some 150 million children between the ages of 5 and 14, or nearly 1 in 6 children in this age group, are victims of child labour. According to the latest estimates by the International Labour Organization (ILO). 7.4 million children in the same age group are engaged in domestic work. This is disproportionately carried out by girls.

We take this day as an opportunity to remember the power that each and every one of us has as consumers to improve reality, and how an everyday act such as choosing to buy becomes a transformative action.