The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations in partnership with Child Labour Units has celebrated this year Children's Day of the 2014 World Day against Child Labour under the theme " combating Child Labour in Ghana through effective social protection.
Mr Stephen McClelland, a representative of international Labour Organisation (ILO) and Chief Technical Advisor, said the latest ILO global child labour estimates, released in September 2013, indicated that the number of child labourers had declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million.
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