Books: child workers

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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.
• Annotated bibliography on child labour - Buy now
  02 September 2003 - Covers various aspects of child labour research published in six languages (English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian). Focuses on materials published from 1995 to 2002.
• 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.
• Action against child labour - Buy now
  28 February 2000 - Based primarily on ILO experience, particularly its International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), addresses the strategies, instruments, methodologies and information necessary to plan and carry out effective action to eliminate child labour.

C 

• 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.
• Child labour survey data processing and storage of electronic files. A practical guide. Statistical information and monitoring programme on child labour (SIMPOC) - Buy now
  15 March 2004 - Describes the requirements and procedures for transferring electronic files to the ILO at the completion of child labour surveys.
• Combating child labour. A handbook for labour inspectors - Buy now
  29 November 2002 - Describes the scope and nature of child labour and outlines ILO Conventions on child labour and labour inspection. Examines current challenges to effective child labour inspection, and describes new approaches to taking follow-up action. Discusses training issues.
• Combating child labour and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa - Buy now
  07 November 2002 - This book reviews the national HIV/AIDS and child labour policies and programmes, NGO projects, and community-based initiatives in three African countries - illuminating the harsh realities of the link between child labour and HIV/AIDS and identifying the broad range of responses, large and small, to these intersecting issues. ...
• Child labour. Targeting the intolerable. Report 86 VI (1) - Buy now
  25 June 1998 - International Labour Conference, 86th Session, 1998. Report VI, Part 1. Drawing on the experience of the ILO, including its International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour, this report surveys international and national law and practice and points the way towards effective action through new international standards. ...
• Children and hazardous works in the Philippines - Buy now
  11 February 1993 - Documenting the change in emphasis from intervention through legislation to direct action at the local level, this book draws particular attention to efforts to eliminate child prostitution and Muro-ami deep sea fishing.
• Child labour: Law practice (Conditions of work digest 1/91) - Buy now
  19 September 1991 - Includes texts of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the ILO's Minimum Age Convention No. 138, Recommendation No. 146, 1973, and excerpts from other conventions and declarations.

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• Good practices: Gender mainstreaming in actions against child labour - Buy now
  11 July 2003 - Comprises a collection of 19 examples of good practices in gender mainstreaming in four areas: gender analysis; gender-specific or gender-sensitive actions; institutional change; and giving girls and women a voice.

I 

• In the twilight zone: Child workers in the hotel, tourism and catering industry - Buy now
  24 June 1999 - Based on research conducted in resorts and cities which receive large numbers of foreign visitors.

O 

• Opening doors. A presentation of laws protecting Filipino child workers. (Third edition) - Buy now
  24 July 2003 -

T 

• 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).
• The Kasambahay. Child domestic work in the Philippines: A living experience - Buy now
  24 July 2003 - Examines the nature of child domestic work carried out mainly by young girls in the Philippines and describes the strategies and experiences of the Visayan Forum in tackling the problem. Focuses on the ILO-IPEC funded Kasambahay (household partner) Programme and the drafting of the Batas Kasambahay (Domestic Workers' Bill).
• The emerging response to child labour (Conditions of work digest 1/88) - Buy now
  20 July 1988 - Provides an overview of major policy developments, cites the substantive provisions of international labour standards adopted by the ILO and policy resolutions and statements made by other intergovernmental bodies, and describes 90 programmes carried out by international, national and community-based organisations in 20 countries. ...