International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

What's new

• ILO to launch new guide against child trafficking during III World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents
  24 November 2008 - The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) will launch a new resource guide on child trafficking and sexual exploitation to coincide with the III World Congress against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro from 25 to 28 November.
• South-South Cooperation to combat child labour
  10 June 2008 - The Brazilian Minister of Labour, Mr. Carlos Lupi, and Indian Minister of Labour, Mr Oscar Fernandes, hold up a red card to child labour and announce their cooperation to combat child labour, particularly its worst forms.
• Understanding Children's Work: an inter-agency research cooperation project on child labour
  01 April 2008 - 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.
• Global Task Force on Child Labour and Education for All (GTF) - Newsletter No.3
  10 March 2008 - 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

  • Commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents - The ILO's response
    24 November 2008 - This brochure explains the ILO's role in fighting commercial sexual exploitation of all children under 18 years of age, a worst form of child labour specifically targeted for immediate elimination under ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182). It describes the principle characteristics of CSEC and the factors that make children vulnerable to it. The brochure also gives a concise review of how ILO Convention No. 182 can be a powerful tool against CSEC and the range of experience ILO-IPEC has acquired to fight CSEC and child trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation.
  • Combating trafficking in children for labour exploitation: A resource kit for policy-makers and practitioners
    21 November 2008 - This resource kit captures over 10 years of work by IPEC and its partners and makes the Programme’s experiences and knowledge available to those who design, implement and improve policy and programming to fight child trafficking. It is composed of five separate but interrelated books that cover a range of themes, including: understanding child trafficking, research and knowledge base, building legal and policy frameworks, mobilization and building partnerships, taking action against child trafficking, and the processes that may contribute to effective remedial action. Accompanying the texts are more than 150 resources comprising publications, ‘how-to’ manuals, guidelines and copies of relevant international instruments and protocols.
  • Child labour, education and health: A review of the literature
    19 November 2008 - This paper reviews the rapidly-expanding literature on the relationships between child labour, education and health. With the renewed interest in child labour as an economic and social problem, researchers have attempted to assess its linkages to the core elements of human capital, hoping to solve continuing riddles in development policy and improve the quality of life for the world¿s poorest and most disadvantaged inhabitants.
  • Sampling for household-based surveys of child labour
    15 October 2008 - This manual presents a wide range of sampling techniques for household-based child labour surveys with a particular emphasis on sampling design and selection procedures. It is meant to assist survey professionals in statistical offices, universities and research organizations. Many of the concepts and approaches introduced by the Manual are illustrated with examples from SIMPOC child labour surveys conducted in all major world regions.
  • TACKLE - Tackling child labour through education: moving children from work to school in 11 countries
    12 June 2008 - IPEC's new TACKLE project was launched with the financial support of the European Community as part of an effort to accelerate the fight against poverty and the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals in 11 countries in Africa and the Carribean and Pacific regions. The project looks to strengthen legal frameworks on child labour and education in the project countries and increase institutional capacities to formulate and implement strategies to eliminate child labour. It will also aid participating countries take targeted actions against child labour and widen advocacy efforts and the dissemination of know-how and good practices.
  • Child labour and education: Evidence from SIMPOC surveys
    09 June 2008 - A new working paper analyzing a diverse sample of SIMPOC national survey data from all world regions. The authors review evidence of the impact of child labour on education, emphasizing the effects of child labour on school attendance, grade repetition, dropout, literacy achievements and overall human capital accumulation.
  • Prevention of child recruitment and reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups: Strategic framework for addressing the economic gap
    05 June 2008 - This strategic framework offers guidance to those involved in addressing the economic aspects of child recruitment and reintegration of children associated with armed forces and groups. It brings together knowledge, lessons and good practices developed, tested and validated during the implementation of the ILO Inter-regional Programme on the Prevention and Reintegration of Children Involved in Armed Conflict.
  • Guidelines on the design of direct action strategies to combat commercial sexual exploitation of children
    05 June 2008 - These guidelines provide project designers and managers with a simple toolkit for selecting the most appropriate strategies and actions to combat commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) at the community level. They include examples, do’s and don’ts and good practices from IPEC’s field experience of and that of its partners worldwide. Concise background material on many of the difficult and sensitive issues concerning CSEC is also provided to help identify suitable strategies.
  • Modern policy and legislative responses to child labour
    05 May 2008 - 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
    10 March 2008 - 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.