Child labour in the Philippines

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Children work in farms and plantations, in dangerous mines, on streets, in factories, and in private homes as child domestic workers. Agriculture remains to be the sector where most child labourers can be found at 58 per cent.
The Philippines has ratified the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138) and Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182. It has adopted the Philippine Program Against Child Labor (PPACL)as the official national programme on the elimination of child labour. This is a convergence of the efforts of the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), chaired by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) working together with the government, the private sector, workers and employers organizations, non-government organizations (NGOs) and international development institutions towards the prevention, protection and removal from hazardous and exploitative work of child labour victims and, as may be appropriate, healing and reintegrating them.
The ILO supports the Philippines in implementing the PPACL through its International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). The ILO, in partnership with the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) implemented the Country Level Engagement and Assistance to Reduce Child Labor (CLEAR) and addressed recommendations in the Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor Report of the USDOL.
The ILO has also implemented the Convening Stakeholders to Develop and Implement Strategies to Reduce Child Labour and Improve Working Conditions in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (COSTREC-ASGM) project aimed at addressing child labour, decent work deficits and working conditions in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM). The COSTREC-ASGM project will support the sector towards setting-up of legal and regulated Peoples’ Small Scale Mines (Minahang Bayan) that are compliant with environmental, health, and labour standards.