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• Media summary: Give girls a chance - Tackling child labour, a key to the future - (Report)
  , June 10, 2009
• Give girls a chance - Tackling child labour, a key to the future - (Book)
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• World Day Against Child Labour – 12 June 2009
  08 June 2009 - The annual World Day Against Child Labour will be marked by events in scores of countries around the world on 12 June amid growing concerns over the impact of the economic crisis on child labour, and in particular girls. (ILO/09/33[ILO_REF])

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• Events planned for the World Day against Child Labour 2009
  

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• World Day Against Child Labour 2009 in Geneva -
  On Friday 12 June 2009, the ILO commemorated the World Day Against Child Labour with a an event organized jointly with the City of Geneva and the Geneva-based community organization "Le Respect" on the Place des Nations with the ILO Director-General Juan Somavia and US Senator Tom Harkin. This year’s World Day also marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption of ILO Convention No. 182 on the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.
• Girls in child labour top 100 million -
  ILO expert Frank Hageman presents a new ILO report that despite recent progress in eliminating child labour which affects 218 million children globally, girls make up an estimated 100 million and more than half of them are under the age of 12. The report cites evidence that as a result of the economic crisis, more girls are kept out of school than boys with the result that they may enter the workforce at an early age.

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• Migrant working girls, victims of the global crisis
  More than 100 million girls are involved in child labour worldwide, according to a new ILO report for World Day against Child Labour 2009. The report warns that the global financial crisis could push an increasing number of children, particularly girls, into child labour. ILO Online reports from Moscow where migrant workers and their children are the first to be hit by the crisis.
• Girls in gold-mining: “I don’t want my children to be like me”
  Over 18,000 girls and boys are engaged in mining and quarrying in the Philippines. For many generations, the search for gold in small-scale mining has been a means of survival for poor families. Girls in such work are particularly vulnerable. Minette Rimando, ILO press officer in Manila, wrote this report for ILO Online.