International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour: Home

What's new

• 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

  • 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.
  • Combating child labour through education
    05 June 2008 - This booklet provides an overview of IPEC’s work on child labour related to education and to broader ILO concerns on training and skills development.
  • 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.
  • Child labour: Cause and effect of the perpetuation of poverty
    05 June 2008 - This study provides recommendations for mainstreaming child labour issues into national development and poverty reduction strategies in Latin American countries in view of their international commitments on the subject. It covers the Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. (In Spanish.)
  • The Mekong Challenge: Winding Roads – Young migrants from Lao PDR and their vulnerability to human trafficking
    05 June 2008 - An analysis of data from the Lao PDR Migration Survey of 2003, this report investigates the motives, family circumstances, and socio-economic and educational status of young migrants who had returned from working in Thailand. It correlates these variables with trafficking and labour exploitation in an effort to assess the vulnerability of young migrants to abuse.
  • The Mekong Challenge: 41 Brothels – Prostitution, trafficking and human rights in Sihanouk Ville, Cambodia
    05 June 2008 - This survey is part of a series of studies into recruitment practices and working conditions in the Greater Mekong Sub-region of children and young women in sectors vulnerable to human trafficking for labour exploitation. It goes to the heart of one of Cambodia’s fastest-growing tourist areas to investigate the situation of vulnerable young people engaged in prostitution.
  • 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.