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CHILD LABOUR
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 Affecting 250 million children today, child labour is a massive problem confronting the world community. The practice of child labour is a critical link in the chains that spread illiteracy, suppress women, spur overpopulation, intensify discrimination, and perpetuate poverty
Position Paper for the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children
Global March Against Child Labour
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International Law and Standards |
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 Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (ILO No. 182)
Recommendation on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (ILO No. 190
Convention on the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment and Work
(ILO No. 138)
Recommendation on the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment and work (ILO No. 146)
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External Links |
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Child Labour guide
(OneWorld) Urging countries to acknowledge the alarming figures that show the
persistence of child labour among the nations.
Global March Against Child Labour a movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be
free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful to the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.
International Labour Organisation Guided by the principles enshrined in the ILO's Minimum Age Convention No. 138
and Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention No. 182, The ILO InFocus Programme on Child Labour (IPEC) works to achieve the effective abolition of child labour.
Unicef Child Labour section.
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Reports, Articles and Analysis |
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AFGHANISTAN: Children work in brick factories to pay off family debts (IRIN News) (April 08, 2008)
Almost One in Four Afghan Children ‘Forced to Work'
(Adnkronos International) (June 19, 2007)
Tough child labour laws proposed
(BBC News) (December 22, 2006)
Laws Governing Exploitative Child
Labour Report Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua (June 2005).
Central Asia struggles to end child labour
(BBC News) (February 21, 2005)
ILO: 'Child labour prevents development' (BBC News) (February 4, 2004)
African children 'enslaved in UK' (BBC News) (November 8, 2001)
Chocolate Firms Agree to Fight Cocoa Child Slavery (Child Labour News Agency) (October 15, 2001)
Malawi tobacco growers ban child labour (BBC News) (September 18, 2001)
Position Paper for the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children (Global March Against Child Labour) (June 1, 2001)
Child Labor: Cause, Consequence and Cure, with Remarks on International Labor Standards by Kaushik Basu (Cornell University and World Bank) (December 5, 1998)
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Country and Region Specific |
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Africa |
Hard work, long hours and little pay: Research with children working on tobacco farms in Malawi
(PLAN) (August 2010)
Children's work in Angola
(UNICEF) (December 2007)
The twin challenges of child labour and youth employment in Ethiopia
(UNICEF) (July 2006)
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Americas |
Street-Working and Street-Living Children in Peru:
Conditions and Current Interventions Talinay Strehl, Foundation for International Research on Working Children (IREWOC), November 2010
United States Fields of Perfil: Child Labor in US Agriculture
(Human Rights Watch, 2010)
The invisible face of child labour in Latin America and the Caribbean
(UNICEF, January 2009)
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Asia |
What has changed?: Project in eliminating the use of forced child labour in the cotton harvests Uzbequistan and Tajikistan School of Oriental and
African Studies University of London (November 2010)
Child Labour in Kathmandu, Nepal Afke de Groot
Institute for Research on Working Children (IREWOC)
(July 2010)
Risks and realitis of Child trafficking and exploitation in Central Asia
(UNICEF)(2009)
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Middle East |
Confronting Child labour in Afghanistan
Afghanistan research and evaluation unit (May 2009)
Combating Child Labour in Pakistan
Diya and Association of Network for Community Empowerment (ANCE)
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