ILO Subregional Office for East Asia: Child labour

February 2010 

• 4 February 2010, Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
  Workshop on Conditional Cash Transfers as a Means of Promoting Education, Reducing Child Labour and Eliminating Its Worst Forms
  A technical discussion on the role of conditional cash transfers in the context of education and child labour. It aims to develop a strategy paper outlining potential conditionality and enforcement mechanisms, as well as challenges for monitoring and implementation. (Seminar)

December 2009 

• 7-8 December 2009, Hangzhou, China
  Seminar on Awareness-Raising of the ILO Child Labour Conventions: No. 182 Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labour, and No. 138 Minimum Age
  The seminar will raise the level of awareness among participants on the content and requirements of the Conventions, as well as supervisory process, and make connections to policy issues in China. Participants will become more familiar with strategies in China that reduce child labour. ... (Seminar)

November 2009 

• Bangkok, Thailand
  Domestic Work is Adult Work
  09 November 2009 - An opinion editorial by Bill Salter, Director, ILO Subregional Office for East Asia on child domestic workers in Cambodia. (Article)

October 2008 

• Support for National Action to Combat Child Labour and Its Worst Forms in Thailand
  This five-year project works in six provinces throughout Thailand to protect children from the worst forms of child labour. (Project)

January 2006 

• Bangkok
  The Mekong challenge - working day and night - the plight of migrant child workers in Mae Sot, Thailand - [pdf 775 KB]
  01 January 2006 - Report on the findings of a survey of more than 300 Burmese children working in factories on the Thai side of the border reveals a situation of serious labour exploitation, in many cases considered to be worst forms of child labour. (Book)