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Combating the worst forms of child labour - A project of the ILO Subregional Office for the Caribbean and the Government of Canada

US report spurs call for action to stop exploitation of women, girls (June 2004, Jamaica Observer)

Executive Director of the Bureau of Women's Affairs, Dr. Glenda Simms, has called for more action to be taken to eliminate the sexual exploitation of women and girls in the country.

National programme for the prevention and elimination of child labour in Jamaica and SIMPOC study (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project JAM/01/50/USA

Jamaica: Report of the Youth Activity Survey 2002

Jamaica's Youth Activity Survey 2002, was conducted over a four-month period beginning in April 2002. The survey was undertaken by The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), in collaboration with SIMPOC of the ILO-IPEC and UNICEF, to provide...

Jamaica’s Youth Activity Survey 2002

Final Report of the Fifth Meeting of Caribbean Labour Ministers, The Bahamas 2004

This reports documents the proceedings of the Fifth Meeting of Caribbean Labour Ministers.

Government moving to combat child labour, keep kids in school (June 2003, Jamaica Observer)

Government is soon expected to take steps to keep children under age 15 out of the workforce and in school, by ratifying an education regime established by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Child development agency comes on-stream today (April 2003, Jamaica Observer)

The Child Development Agency (CDA), an amalgamation of the adoption board, the children's services division and the child support unit, comes on-stream today and is expected to tackle tough issues including child labour and the general protection of...

6,500 street, working children in Jamaica – survey (February 2003, Jamaica Observer)

There are more than 6,000 street and working children in Jamaica, according to a national survey commissioned by the Ministry of Health, and conducted by WORKER MANAGEMENT Services Centre.

Investigating the Worst Forms of Child Labour No. 8

Jamaica: Situation of children in prostitution - A rapid assessment (IWFCL No. 8)

Workers’ Educational Manual

Glossary of industrial relations and related terms and concepts for trade unionists

This glossary includes some of the new terms amd concepts as well as those well-established and frequently used ones with which trade unionists and industrial relations practitioners are familiar.

Workers’ Educational Manual

Trade unions and globalization : a Caribbean workers' education guide

This Manual attempts to identify a practical trade union response to globalization and challenges the users of the Manual, through a series of exercises at the end of each chapter, to enquire further.

Workers’ Educational Manual

Trade union administration : a Caribbean workers' education guide

This Manual captures the essentials for effective trade union administration in a modern environment and through exercises at the end of the chapters, seeks to reinforce on the trade union practitioner the importance of the approaches which have...

Workers’ Education Manual

New Issues in Collective Bargaining A Caribbean Workers’ Education Guide

Manual on new issues in collective bargaining. This publication is one in a series of Workers’ Educational Manuals that have been developed by the ILO Caribbean Office.

$3.5 million to combat child labour in Ja (September 2002, Jamaica Observer)

The International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) has approved funding for two action programmes aimed at implementing activities to combat child labour.

Report of the Cooperative Workshop on "New Imperatives for Effective Cooperative Management”

Report on the two-day workshop for Non-Financial Co-operatives

Surveys to inform child labour response (August 2002, Jamaica Observer)

Jamaica is doing surveys to determine the full dimensions of the problem as it begins to map a co-ordinated response to the issue of child labour, including prostitution, on the island, labour ministry officials say.

Child prostitution... Are mothers to blame? (August 2002, Jamaica Observer)

C is a 15 year-old involved in prostitution who reported that she had been having sex from age eight, "because I like it". According to her, "it was only after Watchie (school watchman) pay mi, dat mi start collect money fi it".

Child prostitution widespread in Jamaica (July 2002, Jamaica Observer)

Children, some as young as 10 and 11 years old, are engaged in prostitution. An International Labour Organisation (ILO) study on the worst forms of child labour in Jamaica has unearthed a disturbing practice of widespread prostitution by children,...

Today is World Day Against Child Labour (June 2002, Jamaica Observer)

The ILO said that despite significant progress in global campaign to abolish child labour, it remained a major problem. "In particular, the magnitude of child labour in its most hazardous and worst forms is far worst than was previously thought"