Child labour, child kidnapping, child trafficking

Child labour

Child labour

Progressive elimination of child labour

Economic exploitation, including child labour

In addition, within the context of projects to eliminate child labour, national child labour surveys often provide statistical information about overtime child labour trends and are used as inputs for policy making.

Worst forms of child labour include child prostitution and trafficking.

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

Child labour, education and indigenous and tribal peoples

Research on ethnicity and child labour in Nepal

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

Efforts to combat child labour should be stepped up.

Modalities of indigenous children being involved in child labour.

Subsequently, the State party reported that, due to improvements in the Labour Inspectorate's working methods to monitor respect for the prohibition on child labour, statistics on child labour had greatly decreased and was now of marginal importance.

Those measures should also encompass the elimination of child labour.

(a) Gathering specific disaggregated data on child labour and using them to develop, in cooperation with working children, effective measures to prevent and eliminate all forms of child labour

States parties have particular responsibilities in relation to extreme forms of hazardous child labour identified in the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) of the ILO

Within this framework, the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour is implementing a number of initiatives to combat child labour through education, specifically aimed at indigenous children and youth.

MICS in 2005 2006 will collect data on child labour, birth registration, FGM C, child marriage, prevalence of orphans, child discipline and childhood disability.

Finally, the State party had introduced policy changes to eliminate child labour.

Testing indigenous community driven education approaches against child labour in the Philippines

Regarding child protection, a speaker said that more efforts were needed in preventing child labour, particularly with female domestic workers.

Prevention and elimination of child labour in the Mayan villages of Toledo, Belize

The 1999 Law on Child Labour prohibited the employment of minors under 16.

In addition, Kuwait had recently signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and had ratified 15 conventions of the International Labour Organization, in particular the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

Child labour and education should be integrated into a broader indigenous child rights agenda to guarantee sustainability of the ongoing efforts.

(b) The Adoption of the Education Law (1995) establishing compulsory, free and guaranteed primary school and the Labour Act regulating child labour (1990)

The Committee welcomes the recent creation of the Coordination Council on Child Labour (in 2004), but remains concerned about the prevalence of child labour in Kyrgyzstan and the lack of official data in this regard.

The Regulations on supervision of labour safeguards of the State Council, which came into effect on 1 December 2004, provide for an enhanced labour supervisory regimen to eliminate the phenomenon of child labour.

More particularly, in the centres of illegal gold prospecting, there is evidence that indigenous children and adolescents are subjected to labour exploitation and the worst forms of child labour, including servitude and slavery, child prostitution, trafficking and sale.

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

A national child labour survey was carried out in 2004 in Malawi, and studies on domestic child workers were conducted in Kenya and Lesotho.

INDISCO has also been continuing its work in the Philippines in cooperation with the International Programme to Eliminate Child Labour to prevent and eliminate child labour among indigenous communities through community driven and culturally appropriate education and livelihoods support.

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.

Given that indigenous and tribal children are at special risk for the worst forms of child labour, it is essential that the development of programmes to combat child labour take into account the social and economic marginalization of these peoples.

4. Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to the progressive and effective elimination of child labour contrary to accepted international standards, and urges them, inter alia, to eliminate immediately the worst forms of child labour as set out in the 1999 International Labour Organization Convention No. 182

3. Calls upon all States to translate into concrete action their commitment to the progressive and effective elimination of child labour contrary to accepted international standards, and urges them, inter alia, to eliminate immediately the worst forms of child labour as set out in International Labour Organization Convention No. 182 of 1999

While noting the ratifications made by the State party concerning International Labour Organization Conventions No. 138 concerning the minimum age for admission to employment and No. 182 concerning the worst forms of child labour, the Committee notes with concern the information in the State party's report that child labour is a serious problem.

Elimination of the worst forms of child labour through education in Villeda Morales (La Mosquitia, Honduras)

Specifically why do we find children from specific indigenous groups in certain sectors of child labour?

Child care leave may also be used, all at once or in installments, by the father of the child (article 165 of the Labour Code).

Manifestations of discrimination include high instances of child and bonded labour, unequal pay, unemployment and emotional devaluation.

The curricula will focus on social exclusion, youth unemployment, gender inequality, child labour and HIV AIDS prevention.

There is an expressed need to link child labour to broader structural challenges facing indigenous and tribal peoples, such as forced labour, land rights, development planning and local governance.

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.