THE Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has declared that it is winning the war on child labor. “We have made significant strides in curbing child labor in poor communities, especially its worst forms,” Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello said. The CLFE Certificate is conferred to an establishment that is not employing child labor and not using products or materials produced through the use of child labor. These initiatives include a first comprehensive project on child labor with set up of help desks, a new project on child labor in gold mining, and a new child labor module in the conditional cash transfer program. Ending child labor requires strong commitment and collective effort,” said Khalid Hassan, Director of the ILO Country Office for the Philippines, who also managed projects that addressed child labor in Africa and Asia.

Source: Manila Times January 14, 2017 10:49 UTC