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| The ILO
aims towards the progressive elimination of
child labour through strengthening national capacities to
address the problem, and creating a world-wide movement to combat
it.
In Ethiopia
the strategy consists of developing knowledge base; awareness raising
and advocacy; capacity building and direct action.
The ILO has
supported: |
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A National Stand Alone
Child Labour Survey by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
and the Central Statistical Authority aiming at generating quantitative
data on child activities, including schooling, economic and non-economic
(2001). full report
A Rapid
Assessment on Child Domestic Workers in Addis Ababa aiming at having
a better understanding of the working and living conditions of these
children, 2000.
full report
A survey on
child labour in tea, coffee, sugarcane and cotton plantations in
rural Ethiopia, 1998 by the National Federation of Farm, Plantation,
Fishery and Agro-Industry Trade Unions. full
report
Emotional
problems prevailing from child labour by the Amanuel Mental Hospital.
The report of the survey will be available soon.
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| Ethiopia
has ratified the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (N°182)
and the Minimum Age Convention, 1999 (N° 138). |
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Child work in Ethiopia - Key statistics |
| 49%
of the children aged 14 and under are engaged in productive activity
– this represents 7.5 million children |
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3.3 million working children are less than 10 years old |
| Children
aged 14 and under work on average 34 hours per week (children under
10 work 36 hours per week) |
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Two third of the working children aged 14 and under do not go to school |
| 92%
of working children aged 18 and under are unpaid family workers. Most
of them are in the informal sector |
91% of them work in the agricultural sector
o 1.9% are in manufacturing
o 2.8% are in wholesale and retail trade
o 1.6% are in hotel and restaurants
o 1% are in private households, and
o 1% are in community, social and personal service |
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largest number of working children aged 14 and under – 3 million
- are in Oromiya |
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highest proportion of working children is in the Amhara region, where
55% of children aged 14 and under are in the labour forc |
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39% of ever worked children aged 5-17 years started working before
5 of age |
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National Child Labour Survey, 2001 |
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