Stronger voices, fairer incomes, brighter futures: decent work pathways to ending child labour - 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour
Sustainable financing solutions for the elimination of child labour: towards coherent and sustainable national strategies - 6th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour
This session will examine how governments, businesses and social partner organisations operating in different supply chains are using a smart mix of measures, including legislation and partnerships, to increase their responses to preventing and combating child labour and other decent work deficits in the early stages of supply chains.
This session will address the growing challenge of child exploitation and abuse in digital environments and its implications for child protection and labour systems.
Child labour remains a worrying global phenomenon, affecting millions of children, particularly in contexts of poverty, crises, and the informal economy. Beyond its physical and educational consequences, child labour has deep and lasting impacts on the mental health and psychosocial well-being of the children concerned.
The 2026 Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations on 12 and 13 February 2026, in New York, under the theme Parliaments and the United Nations: Better together, delivering for the people
To mark the fourth commemoration of the International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism as and when Conducive to Terrorism on 12 February 2026, the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) will convene a high-level special event on preventing violent extremism in the digital age.
The 2026 first regular session of the UNICEF Executive Board will meet in New York from 10–13 February 2026. The Executive Board reviews UNICEF activities and approves its policies, country programmes and budgets.
Investments in Artificial Intelligence are advancing at an unprecedented pace, raising fundamental questions about how this technology might reshape work, employment and skills. A new wave of empirical studies is beginning to shed light on these developments, but the evidence remains early and incomplete.
Guest: Alexandre Zouev, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Counter-Terrorism. He will brief reporters on the International Day to Prevent Violent Extremism, marked on 12 February.
The Special Dialogue co-organized by UNOCT and the Republic of Korea will convene a focused multi-sector exchange to examine Artificial Intelligence (AI) and organizational readiness in preventing and countering violent extremism (PCVE).
The 2026 Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations on 12 and 13 February 2026, in New York, under the theme Parliaments and the United Nations: Better together, delivering for the people
