In June 1998, the International Labour Conference will discuss proposed new international legal standards on child labour. The new standards call for the immediate suppression of extreme forms of child labour including: slavery and slavery-like practices forced labour, debt bondage, and serfdom use of children in illegal activities, prostitution and pornography any work or activity which is likely to jeopardize the health, safety or morals of children.

This kit contains key information on the proposed standards, extreme forms of child labour and examples of action taken against them.

Contents

Targeting the Intolerable: Toward the Adoption of New International Labour Standards on Extreme Forms of Child Labour
By Michele Jankanish, International Labour Office, Geneva. First published 1998

Proposed New International Labour Standards on Extreme Forms of Child Labour
International Labour Office, Geneva. First published 1998

Factsheets:

- Existing and Proposed New ILO Standards on Child Labour
- Child Labour in the World
- Children in Hazardous Agriculture
- Prostitution and Trafficking of Children
- International Action against Child Labour: ILO-IPEC
- Children in Hazardous Work
- Slavery and Forced Child Labour
- Children and Domestic Work
- Children in Mining and Quarries
- Global March against Child Labour