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International Labour Conference, June 1999

• Convention concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour

• Recommendation concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour

• Report of the Committee on Child Labour

• Proposed New International Labour Standards on the Worst Forms of Child Labour
  Text of proposed Convention and Recommendation

ILO Conventions and Recommendations

• ILO Convention No. 5 - Minimum Age (Industry), 1919
• ILO Convention No. 7 - Minimum Age (Sea), 1920
• ILO Convention No. 10 - Minimum Age (Agriculture), 1921
• ILO Convention No. 29 - Forced Labour, 1930
• ILO Convention No. 33 - Minimum Age (Non-Industrial Employment), 1932
• ILO Convention No. 58 - Minimum Age (Sea), (Revised), 1936
• ILO Convention No. 59 - Minimum Age (Industry) (Revised), 1937
• ILO Convention No. 60 - Minimum Age (Non-Industrial Employment) (Revised), 1937
• ILO Convention No. 112 - Minimum Age (Fisherman), 1959
• ILO Convention No. 123 - Minimum Age (Underground Work), 1965
• Recommendation No. 124 - Minimum Age (Underground Work), 1965
• ILO Convention No. 138 - Minimum Age, 1973
• Recommendation No. 146 - Minimum Age, 1973

Ratifications of ILO Conventions

• Ratifications of ILO Conventions on minimum age and forced labour by country

ILO Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work and it's follow-up

• Text of the Declaration

Other International Treaties

• United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (entry into force: 2 September 1990)
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (entry into force: 3 January 1976)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (entry into force: 23 March 1976)
• Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (entry into force: 30 April 1957)
• Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
  (entry into force: 25 July 1951)