Child labour

Child labour

(e) Child labour

Child labour, child kidnapping, child trafficking

3. Children and work

CHILDHOPE also collaborates with the International Labour Organization (ILO) on issues pertaining child labour and the work of street children.

The second is the elimination of child labour, which is a major impediment to education.

Child labour is widely reported, with 12 million children holding jobs.

Modalities of indigenous children being involved in child labour.

His delegation fully supported the work of the open ended working group to elaborate a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on children in armed conflict.

Therefore, IPEC continues to support, develop and implement national, sub regional and regional programmes, giving top priority to the immediate eradication of the most intolerable forms of child labour, in particular bonded child labour commercial sexual exploitation trafficking in children child labour in domestic service and child labour in hazardous work.

Worst forms of child labour include child prostitution and trafficking.

321. The representative of the ILO spelled out in some detail child labour as a major source of disability in children and indicated some of ILO apos s long standing and ongoing work directed towards the elimination of harmful and hazardous child labour.

According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), in Latin America and the Caribbean most such children work in mines, fields and factories, as well as in domestic service.

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101. Children and work.

New York, UNICEF Working Group on Girls.

1409. The representative of the International Labour Organization spelled out in some detail child labour as a major source of disability in children and indicated some of the Organization apos s long standing and ongoing work directed towards the elimination of harmful and hazardous child labour.

ILO has also undertaken activities related to the eradication of child labour, in particular through the International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour.

Some 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 years are involved in child labour.

17. The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) provides ILO with an operational arm to assist countries in formulating national policies on child labour in line with international standards and to build the national capacity to combat child labour.

PETI Programa de Erradicação do Trabalho Infantil Program for the Eradication of Child Labor

(b) Protection of children at work

III. ELIMINATION OF THE EXPLOITATION OF CHILD LABOUR

Currently, a master plan was being prepared with a view to eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2007 and all forms of child labour by 2010 and a strategic plan had been adopted for dealing with seven key categories of child workers workers under conditions of slavery, scavengers, carriers, house servants, miners, rug makers, trafficked girls and children exploited sexually or as labour.

(c) Seek international technical assistance inter alia, from ILO and UNICEF.

No cases are reported of industrial establishments employing children.

159. The Committee is worried about the fact that a large number of children are involved in child labour, including in the informal sector, particularly as domestic servants, in agriculture and in the family context.

Elimination of exploitation of child labour

Elimination of the exploitation of child labour

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35. Mr. Holmes (Canada) said that, while much had been accomplished in addressing the problems of child labour, street children and the sale and exploitation of children, tremendous efforts were still required. In the area of child labour, there was a growing determination to end practices that exploited children.

In addition, UNICEF initiated studies on child labour, child detention and violence against children.

ILO estimates indicated that 246 million children aged 5 to 17 years had been involved in child labour worldwide in the year 2000.

Of those, 8.4 million are trapped in the worst forms of child labour as defined in ILO Convention No. 182, including some 5.7 million in forced and bonded labour.

E. Elimination of exploitation of child labour

196. The legislation on child labour is being amended.

Exploitation of child labour and debt bondage

(iv) Child labour in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

58. Many children who are trafficked for the purposes of labour end up working in construction or in factories, exposed to a multitude of health risks, many of which prove fatal.

The Committee, while recognizing the efforts of the State party towards combating child labour, deplores the practice of child labour in the State party, especially in agriculture and domestic work.

fostering of social infrastructure in order to facilitate child raising and work

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