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World Day Against Child Labour 2008

Education: The right response to child labour

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World of Work No. 61, January 2008

IPEC at 15 years

In their own words...

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The future belongs to those with a vision to shape it. The ILO and its partners stand for a world where no girl or boy is forced to work at the expense of their health and development or their future prospects of decent work. A future without child labour is at last within reach. Significant progress is being made worldwide in combating child labour. The latest global estimates of trends reinforce this message of hope. However, a strong and sustained global movement is needed to provide the extra push towards eliminating the scourge of child labour. For more information see the Global Report The end of child labour: Within reach. (ILO, 2006)

What's new

Child labour data country briefs
Child labour country briefs based on data from SIMPOC surveys and a set of common indicators.
Understanding Children's Work: an inter-agency research cooperation project on child labour
How likely is it that a poor household will send children to work when faced a sudden turn for the worse in its economic situation? A recent paper published by UCW, a joint ILO, UNICEF and World Bank research project, analyzes the effects of crop failure, drought and floods on household decisions about work vs. schooling in rural Cambodia.
News from southern Africa
The Botswana Labour Force Survey has established that 9% of the country's children in the 7-17 year age group are engaged in economic activity. More about this survey and other news from Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland and South Africa in the December 2007 Child Labour Link newsletter.
Global Task Force on Child Labour and Education for All (GTF) - Newsletter No.3
The Global Task Force is an inter agency initiative designed to effectively link work on child labour and education for all. Newsletter No.3 - March 2008.

Latest publications
- Modern policy and legislative responses to child labour
  This guide examines of modern responses to child labour as embodied in policy and legislation. It covers where and how the lines have been drawn between the types and arrangements of work that have no harmful effect on children and those that do; how countries have expressed their antipathy to child labour and created institutions to combat it; how governments have responded to children not getting a proper education; and how governments have responded to adults¿ exploitation of child labour.
- IPEC action against child labour 2006-2007: Progress and future priorities
  IPEC's implementation report for the biennium 2006-07, highlighting the Programme's activites worldwide. The report also reflects upon IPEC's work during its fifteen years of existence and the ILO's vision of eliminating all worst forms of child labour by 2016.
- SCREAM: A special module on HIV, AIDS and child labour
  This publication is a companion module to the IPEC SCREAM education pack. It is intended for use by educators to inform young people about HIV and AIDS and includes activities to increase awareness and understanding of related health, family and child labour issues.
- Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms
  Four papers synthesizing the knowledge and experiences acquired from the ILO-IPEC project "West African Cocoa and Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitive Child Labour" (WACAP), which was implemented in Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea and Nigeria from 2002 to 2006.
- Consolidated good practices in education and child labour
  This publication presents a cross-section of some of the most important and successful good practices from education and skills training interventions identified from among the thousands of projects and programmes to eliminate child labour that have been implemented by ILO-IPEC and its partners around the world.
- Reaching the unreached: our common challenge - Global Task Force on Child labour and Education for All (GTF)
  This brochure explains the relationship between tackling child labour and promoting Education for All and the background to the formation of the Global Task Force on Child Labour and Education for All.
- Child labour wages and productivity: Results from demand-side surveys
  This SIMPOC study gathered preliminary evidence on wages and productivity of children and adults in two occupations in each of four selected countries in different world regions. Survey work was carried out in Ghana, India, the Philippines and Uganda in 2004 and 2005.
- The worldwide movement against child labour: Progress and future directions
  This report maps the evolution of the worldwide movement against child labour; how far we have come and the distance that we still need to travel if the goal of the effective elimination of child labour is to be attained.