Books: child labour

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• Action against child labour. IPEC highlights 2008 - Buy now
  08 July 2009 - This report is the mid-term implementation report of the International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour for the biennium 2008-09.
• A future without child labour. Global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. Report of the Director-General, 2002 - [pdf 5686 KB] - Buy now
  06 May 2002 - Folder containing flyers, fact sheets, the report "A future without child labour", and resource lists of contact persons by region.

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• Cooperating out of child labour. Harnessing the untapped potential of cooperatives and the cooperative movement to eliminate child labour - Buy now
  08 July 2009 - This title has been produced as a call to action to the world cooperative movement to join hands in fighting child labour. Cooperatives and the cooperative movement have an important, but as yet unharnessed, role to play in the elimination of child labour worldwide.
• Child labour statistics. Report III. 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS/18/2008). Geneva, 24 November-5 December 2008 - Buy now
  03 February 2009 - This report aims at setting standards of good practice on the collection, compilation and analysis of national child labour statistics, guiding countries to update their existing statistical system in this field or to establish a new one where necessary.
• Consolidated good practices in education and child labour - Buy now
  15 January 2008 - This book presents some of the most important good practices identified by ILO-IPEC from thousands of projects and programmes around the world. ...
• Child labour wages and productivity: Results from demand-side surveys. May 2007. (SIMPOC) - Buy now
  20 January 2007 - This new study from the ILO sets out to explore the possibility that, in some contexts at least, employers may actually have an economic incentive to hire children rather than adults. Data on wages and productivity of children and adults in two occupations in four countries - Ghana, India, the Philippines and Uganda - were gathered between 2004 and 2005. ...

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• Eliminating child labour. Guides for the employers - Buy now
  23 January 2008 - This package, which consists of three practical guides, is designed to help businesses and their organizations understand and take action against child labour. They provide ideas, advice and examples for the prevention of child labour, the withdrawal of child from work and the protection of young workers from hazardous conditions. ...

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• Give girls a chance. Tackling child labour, a key to the future - Buy now
  08 July 2009 - This report provides an overview on the involvement of girls in child labour and the policy responses required to tackle the problem. It provides global estimates on girls involvement in child labour and looks at major sectors of work in which girls are involved. ...

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• Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms (Series of 4 papers) - Buy now
  15 January 2008 - These four papers synthesize the knowledge and experiences acquired from implementation of the ILO-IPEC technical assistance programme to combat hazardous and exploitative child labour in cocoa and commercial agriculture in West Africa (WACAP). This series of four papers is available as one boxed set.
• Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms (Series of 4 papers) - Buy now
  15 January 2008 - These four papers synthesize the knowledge and experiences acquired from implementation of the ILO-IPEC technical assistance programme to combat hazardous and exploitative child labour in cocoa and commercial agriculture in West Africa (WACAP). This series of four papers is available as one boxed set.

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• Sampling for household-based surveys of child labour - Buy now
  13 February 2009 - This manual is concerned with sampling issues arising in the context of household-based child labour surveys.
• SIMPOC Training modules on child labour data collection, processing, analysis and reporting - Buy now
  13 February 2009 - In this manual, SIMPOC has developed a complete and self-contained training kit for practitioners collecting, processing, analyzing and reporting data related to child labour.

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• Training resource pack for agricultural cooperatives on the elimination of hazardous child labour (Set of 2 books) - Buy now
  09 July 2009 - The goal of this resource kit is to raise awareness, help cooperative trainers to plan and run activities, and improve occupational safety and health conditions and promote the implementation of ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).
• Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation
  27 April 2009 - The Training manual consists of three Textbooks and one exercise book; 1. Understanding child trafficking, 2. Action against child trafficking at policy and outreach levels 3. Matters of process 4. Exercise book. There is also a facilitators’ guide on CD-ROM This is a joint ILO, UNICEF and UN.GIFT project.
• Training resource pack on the elimination of hazardous child labour in agriculture (Set of 3 books) - Buy now
  06 February 2008 - This training resource pack is designed to help farmer trainers to plan and run training activities with farmers and their communities; to raise their awareness about the problem of child labour and why it is an issue they have to deal with; to provide them with essential information on the elimination of the worst forms of child labour, particularly hazardous child labour; to help them improve oc ...
• The worldwide movement against child labour. Progress and future directions - Buy now
  31 July 2007 - This study provides the first systematic analysis of the worldwide movement against child labour. It argues that the intellectual and policy frameworks first articulated by the ILO in the 1980s remain important departure points for developing a more coherent, more sustained global effort against child labour. ...