The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have teamed up to ensure a Philippines free of child labor by 2025. The two agencies joined forces in its “Makiisa para sa #1MBatangMalaya: We are one with the children in ending child labor” to raise public awareness and get rid of child labor in the country. These are all aligned with both the Philippine Program Against Child Labor 2017-2022, which aims to rescue one million children from child labor, and the Sustainable Development Goals that calls for the end of child labor by 2025. As the chair of the National Child Labor Committee, the DOLE vowed to intensify its campaign against child labor and to back its partners in curbing child labor. Khalid Hassan, director of the International Labor Organization country office for the Philippines, noted that child labor is complex and deeply rooted in poverty.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 13, 2017 19:29 UTC