This report presents the results of research studies to assess health and safety hazards and risks faced by children in ten sectors of economy in two districts of Pakistan namely Sahiwal in Punjab and Sukkur in Sindh province.
The aim of this publication is to document good practices that emerged from the implementation of the project in order to provide information to different stakeholders at national, district and community level that would guide programming for enhancing interventions for elimination of child labour, replicate and take the good practices to scale. A total of 15 good practices were identified at the macro, meso and micro levels.
This Guide is designed for the Government unit tasked with organizing and facilitating the Tripartite Consultations that will result in either a new or a revised list of hazardous child labour for the country.
To undertake this survey, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and ILO-IPEC with other stakeholders jointly identified the Dry Fish Industry located in selected five coastal districts of the Bay of Bengal. The aim of the survey was to investigate the forced labour of children and its measurement on the basis of certain indicators such as unfree recruitment, work imposed, freedom of work, dependency, coercion/ penalty etc. in line with ILO Conventions C 29 and C 105.
This report reviews the current state of knowledge concerning children in hazardous work and presents the case for a new focus on the issue as part of the wider global effort to eliminate the worst forms of child labour.
How can better regulation and awareness of pesticides and chemicals contribute to reduce hazardous work of children in agriculture? Are vulnerable groups taken into consideration when identifying risks related to pesticides or to industrial chemicals? Do pesticide registrars consider data related to children¿s exposure to hazardous pesticides?