A delegation from Fiji will be traveling to Argentina next month for the 4th Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour.
A consultation to prepare the Pacific Island Countries for the conference was conducted by the International Labour Organization in Nadi.
During the consultation, ILO Assistant Director-General and Regional Director, Tomoko Nishimoto reiterated the importance for PIS to join Global Alliance 8.7.
“We’re calling for them to step up their effort to eliminate child and forced labour and asking them to join the Global Alliance 8.7. So we’re calling on the partners working for those topics to come together in a more coordinated way to put in place more effort to meet the target.”
The Alliance 8.7 is a movement to engage countries to implement effective measures to eradicate forced labour, modern salary and human tracking.
Nishimoto says Fiji has made tremendous efforts to tackle the issues of child
labour.
The countries part of the consultation included Palau, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tuvalu and Cook Islands.
