All publications: child labour + child workers

Handbook: Guidance on implementing the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 - Model National Provisions [2nd impression (with modifications),...

This handbook contains a model for legal provisions that implement the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006). This model closely follows the provisions of the Convention. It is not a proposal for a national law (although with some adjustments...

Training manual

Eliminating hazardous child labour and occupational safety, health and environmental risks: A manual for agents of change in cocoa...

This Manual was produced by ILO-IPEC and GAWU to serve as an essential training tool for workers in the rural communities, especially cocoa farmers, to promote and ensure safety at the work place. Collaboration between workers’ and employers’...

Good practices

Good practices for tackling child labour in Cambodia

This report provides information on five good practices (GPs), which those working on child labour in Cambodia have developed to stop child labour, improve the welfare and opportunities for child labourers and their families, and sustain these...

Child Labour and Education for All

A resource Guide for trade unions and a call against Child Labour and for Education for All.

Survey tools

Interactive tools in sampling with household-based child labour surveys

The ILO Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) has developed a set of interactive tools in sampling with household-based child labour surveys or, more generally, surveys dealing with work-related activities of children living in private...

Child labour “in a nutshell”: A resource for Pacific Island Countries

This resource has been produced to enhance the knowledge base on child labour for Pacific Island Countries.

Report

Health hazards of child labour in brick kilns of Bangladesh

In this research our main concern is to determine occupational health hazards and risks of those children who are involved in various types of work in the brick kilns of Bangladesh. This study assesses the health impacts associated with the work,...

Solomon Islands child labour & trafficking forum

National Child Labour Survey

Ghana Living Standards Survey Round 6 (GLSS6) - Child Labour

This report focuses on Child Labour in Ghana and is based on the results obtained from the implementation of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS) 2013 (round sixth) (GLSS6), conducted between 18 October 2012 and 17 October 2013.

The twin challenges of child labour and educational marginalisation in the ECOWAS region - An overview

As part of the efforts to address the present urgent situation, Governments and regional institutions have developed the ECOWAS Child Policy and the accompanying Strategic Plan of Action for the ECOWAS Child Policy, as well as the West Africa...

National Child Labour Survey

Viet Nam National Child Labour Survey 2012 - Main Findings

Reaffirming and promoting rights during transition: development results 2012-2013

By looking at a narrow set of indicators, such as the rate of privatization, trade openness, debt, inflation and foreign direct investment, most analysts had concluded that Arab countries were on the right track economically in the lead up to the...

A programme to reduce WFCL in tobacco growing communities in Brazil and Malawi (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project GLO/11/52/JTI, BRA/11/50/JTI and MLW/11/50/JTI - Consultants: Jose Maria Alvarez Vega (international), George Vilili (Malawi), Ricardo Caldas (Brazil)

The Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour Regional Initiative

The Latin America and the Caribbean Free of Child Labour Regional Initiative is a commitment by the countries to accelerate the process towards the elimination of child labour. At the same time, it represents an innovative cooperation instrument to...

Guide to international labour standards (2014)

Provides summaries of the contents of ILO Conventions and Recommendations by subject matter.

Brochure: Extend social protection: combat child labour! World Day Against Child Labour, 12 June 2014 (in Nepali)

Short overview of the Principles of the MNE Declaration

Guide of the Decree 8987 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour

This guide aims to present Decree No 8987 in simplified language form in order to facilitate comprehension of its article contents and render them more amenable to abiding by, especially by children and their parents or caretakers.

National Awareness Raising Strategy on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Lebanon

The overall goal of the Awareness Raising Strategy is to support the National Action Plan’s efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon by 2016. It seeks to achieve four objectives that were set after a series of consultations...

Brochure on International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) - Country Level Engagement and Assistance to Reduce Child...