Canada takes stand against child labour, step towards global goals

The government announced earlier this month it would ratify the International Labour Organization’s convention that sets the minimum age for employment at 15.

Students climb Parliament Hill. ILO Convention 138 sets the minimum age for employment at 15 and bans hazardous work for children under 18, unless specific measures are put in place.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DAVID MORLEY

June 22, 2016

More than 167 million children around the world are engaged in work that is robbing them of their childhood, their dignity, their education, their physical and mental development, and often, their health. More than half of them, 85 million, do so in hazardous environments. Earlier this month, Canad...

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