Lebanon
Launch of national action plan to combat child labour
The National Action Plan aims to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon by 2016
As part of the ILO’s International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour’s Project (IPEC) in Lebanon, The Natonal Action Plan to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labour by 2016 will be launched under the Patronage of the President of the Republic of Lebanon. The event will take place at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, Lebanon at 10:30am on November 7, 2013. The National Action Plan will be launched by the President of the Republic of Lebanon Mr. Michel Suleiman and the Minister of Labour Mr. Selim Jreisati, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization.
The National Action Plan is the culmination of over a decade of collaboration between the Government of Lebanon and IPEC and is a key objective of the ILO project “Supporting national action to combat the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon”. The plan was developed in an inclusive and comprehensive consultation process spearheaded by the National Steering Committee Against Child Labour and the Child Labour Unit at the Ministry of Labour.
The launch falls within the framework of the ILO-IPEC project entitled “Supporting national action to combat the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon,” as well as ILO Conventions on the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, 1973 (No.138) and that Against the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No.182), let alone ( or in addition to) the recent national Decree 8987 prohibiting and listing the most hazardous forms of child labour in Lebanon. The National Action Plan also reaffirms Lebanon’s commitment to the Hague Global Child Labour Conference in 2010 where the country committed itself to the international goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.
The National Action Plan is the culmination of over a decade of collaboration between the Government of Lebanon and IPEC and is a key objective of the ILO project “Supporting national action to combat the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon”. The plan was developed in an inclusive and comprehensive consultation process spearheaded by the National Steering Committee Against Child Labour and the Child Labour Unit at the Ministry of Labour.
The launch falls within the framework of the ILO-IPEC project entitled “Supporting national action to combat the worst forms of child labour in Lebanon,” as well as ILO Conventions on the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment, 1973 (No.138) and that Against the Worst Forms of Child Labour, 1999 (No.182), let alone ( or in addition to) the recent national Decree 8987 prohibiting and listing the most hazardous forms of child labour in Lebanon. The National Action Plan also reaffirms Lebanon’s commitment to the Hague Global Child Labour Conference in 2010 where the country committed itself to the international goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.