Books and reports

September 2017

  1. Report

    Global Estimates of Child Labour: Results and trends, 2012-2016

    19 September 2017

    The 2017 Global Estimates present the scale, prevalence, and key characteristics of child labour in the world today.

June 2015

  1. 2015 World Report on Child Labour

    World Report on Child Labour 2015: Paving the way to decent work for young people

    10 June 2015

    The second volume of the ILO World Report on Child Labour series highlights the close linkages between child labour and good youth employment outcomes, and the consequent need for common policy approaches to addressing challenges arising in countries where both child labour and youth unemployment prevail.

June 2011

  1. Publication

    Children in hazardous work: What we know, what we need to do

    10 June 2011

    This report reviews the current state of knowledge concerning children in hazardous work and presents the case for a new focus on the issue as part of the wider global effort to eliminate the worst forms of child labour. For more information on this report or to order copies, please contact pubvente@ilo.org.

July 2009

  1. Publication

    Training resource pack for agricultural cooperatives on the elimination of hazardous child labour (Set of 2 books)

    09 July 2009

    The goal of this resource kit is to raise awareness, help cooperative trainers to plan and run activities, and improve occupational safety and health conditions and promote the implementation of ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182).

  2. Publication

    Cooperating out of child labour. Harnessing the untapped potential of cooperatives and the cooperative movement to eliminate child labour

    08 July 2009

    This title has been produced as a call to action to the world cooperative movement to join hands in fighting child labour. Cooperatives and the cooperative movement have an important, but as yet unharnessed, role to play in the elimination of child labour worldwide.

  3. Publication

    Action against child labour. IPEC highlights 2008

    08 July 2009

    This report is the mid-term implementation report of the International Labour Organization’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour for the biennium 2008-09.

April 2009

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    Training manual to fight trafficking in children for labour, sexual and other forms of exploitation

    27 April 2009

    The Training manual consists of three Textbooks and one exercise book; 1. Understanding child trafficking, 2. Action against child trafficking at policy and outreach levels 3. Matters of process 4. Exercise book. There is also a facilitators’ guide on CD-ROM This is a joint ILO, UNICEF and UN.GIFT project.

February 2009

  1. Publication

    Sampling for household-based surveys of child labour

    13 February 2009

    This manual is concerned with sampling issues arising in the context of household-based child labour surveys.

  2. Publication

    SIMPOC Training modules on child labour data collection, processing, analysis and reporting

    13 February 2009

    In this manual, SIMPOC has developed a complete and self-contained training kit for practitioners collecting, processing, analyzing and reporting data related to child labour.

  3. Publication

    Child labour statistics. Report III. 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS/18/2008). Geneva, 24 November-5 December 2008

    03 February 2009

    This report aims at setting standards of good practice on the collection, compilation and analysis of national child labour statistics, guiding countries to update their existing statistical system in this field or to establish a new one where necessary.