Publications

September 2012

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   Child migrants in child labour: An invisible group in need of attention - A study based on child helpline case records

   In the lead up to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child holding its 2012 Day of General Discussion on “The rights of all children in the context of International Migration”, ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and Child Helpline International (CHI) joined forces to shed light on the situation of migrant children in child labour, resulting in a report entitled “Child migrants in child labour: An invisible group in need of attention - A study based on child helpline case records”.

November 2011

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   Education Needs Assessment in Target Cocoa Growing Communities (including coverage of migrant children)

   The final document duly edited will be provided later.A needs assessment was carried out to identify the main issues that keep children out of school in the target project districts and to design appropriate interventions. The study involved a qualitative research that used secondary data, including literature review of legislative, policy and programme documents related to education to ascertain the state of education in Ghana.

May 2011

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   Migration and child labour - Essentials

   This hand-out defines child migration and how it relates to child labour. It describes the plight of child migrants, shortcomings in current protection mechanisms and ways forward in terms of effective responses in the world of work

June 2010

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   Serving the unserved - How government agencies and NGOs learned to reach migrant children with educational opportunities

May 2010

1. Accelerating action against child labour - ILO Global report on child labour 2010

   Report of the Director-General, International Labour Conference, 99th session, 2010

September 2009

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   Report on Working Children Situation in Eight Provinces and Cities in Viet Nam

   Around the world today, many children are working, doing labour that is damaging to their mental, physical and emotional development. According to the latest data from the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are approximately 218 million children who are working worldwide aged between 5 and 17, the majority of which are from developing countries. The children work in a multitude of occupations and sectors, often at the expense of regular school attendance.

November 2008

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   The Worst Forms of Child Labour in Mongolia - Study Report

   This study includes chapters on worst forms of child labour in Mongolia, their causes and consequences and recommendations on their elimination.

September 2008

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   The Mekong Challenge - An Honest Broker - Improving cross-border recruitment practices for the benefit of Government, Workers and Employers

December 2007

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   Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms - A Manual for training education practitioners: Ghana

   This manual was produced under ILO-IPEC project WACAP, which was implemented in Cameroon, Côte d¿Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria (2002-2006).It is a training course for education practitioners who are working to make education inclusive for working children. It is specifically aimed at helping these professionals address the special needs of current and potential child labourers in order to encourage them to stay in school and complete their education.

January 2007

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   Steps to the elimination of child labour in Central and Eastern Europe: Emerging good practices and lessons learned

   These good practices represent the work of a whole range of organizations and bodies involved in efforts to eliminate trafficking and other worst forms of child labour in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to implementing the various activities described herein, they have been active participants in the process of identifying, documenting, validating and sharing the good practices, of which this document is the fruit.