87^th SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE (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

• Reports Submitted

• Report IV (2B) - Child Labour
  This report contains the English versions of (A) the proposed Convention concerning the prohibition and immediate elimination of the worst forms of child labour; and (B) the proposed Recommendation concerning the prohibition and immediate elimination of the worst forms of child labour, which are submitted as a basis for discussion of the fourth item on the agenda of the 87th Session of the International Labour Conference (June 1999).

• Report IV (2A) - Child Labour
  This report has been drawn up on the basis of comments received from governments and from employers' and workers' organizations. It contains summaries of their views on the proposed Convention and Recommendation on the worst forms of child labour. The summaries are followed, where appropriate, by brief Office commentaries.

• Report IV (1) - Child Labour
  This report contains the texts of a proposed Convention and Recommendation concerning the prohibition and immediate elimination of the worst forms of child labour. These texts are based on the Conclusions adopted by the International Labour Conference following the first discussion at its 86th Session (June 1998).

• Information Kit

• Targeting the intolerable:
  A new international Convention to eliminate the worst forms of child labour

  This kit assembles information on the nature and extent of child labour. It includes factsheets describing particular hazardous forms of child labour and ILO action aimed at eliminating them. It also provides an overview of the issues and debates surrounding the proposed Convention and contains the text of the Convention and Recommendation.

• Press releases - 1999 International Labour Conference

86^th SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE (1998)

• Reports Submitted

• Report VI (1) - Preliminary Report on Law and Practice; Questionnaire
  Drawing on ILO action against child labour, including the experience of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour and other iniatives, this report chronicles the exploitation and abuse of working children, surveys international and national law and practice, and points the way toward effective pratical action to remove children from debt bondage, prostitution and hazardous occupations and activities. It is accompanied by a questionnaire (Report VI (1): Questionnaire) which seeks the views of governments, in consultation with employers' and workers' organizations, on the possible scope and content of the proposed international legal instruments.

• Report VI (2) - Summary of Replies; Office Commentaries
  This report contains the substance of the general observations made by governments and of their replies to the questionnaire, as well as of replies received from employers' and workers' organizations. The summary of the observations on each question is followed by a brief office commentary refering to the relevant point (or points) of the Proposed Conslusions.

• Proposed Conclusions
  The Proposed Conclusions have been prepared on the basis of the replies summarized and commented upon in this report. they have been drafted in the usual form and are intended to serve as a basis for discussion by the International Labour Conference of the sixth item on the agenda of its 86^th Session (1998).

• Report of the Committee on Child Labour

• Submission, discussion, and adoption of the committee's report on the plenary.

• Proposed Conclusions, and Resolution to place on the agenda of the next ordinary session of the Conference an item entitled "Child labour".

• Information Kit

• Abolishing Extreme Forms of Child Labour
  This kit contains key information on the proposed standards, extreme forms of child labour and examples of action taken against them.

• Press releases - 1998 International Labour Conference

• Pictures - 1998 International Labour Conference

84^th SESSION OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE (1996)

• Resolution concerning the eliminiation of child labour. Adopted at the 84th Session of the International Labour Conference in 1996.

• Effect to be given to the resolution concerning the elimination of child labour. ILO Governing Body 267th Session Geneva, November 1996