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The International Labour Organization Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (Convention No. 182) calls for time-bound programmes for the eradication of the worst forms of child labour. Countries ratifying this Convention must take immediate and effective measures to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour ...
The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) is a programme that the International Labour Organization has run since 1992. IPEC's aim is to work towards the progressive elimination of child labour by strengthening national capacities to address child labour problems, and by creating a worldwide movement to combat it.
Child labour is the exploitation ... and have put "child friendly" measures in ... campaigners in the UK called on two leading high street retailers to stop selling ...
The elimination of child labour was one of the main goals of the ILO. According to the UN agency, 152 million children worldwide are affected by the convention, almost half of which do dangerous work. Most child labour is carried out in the agricultural sector, mainly due to poverty and the difficulties faced by parents.
The Minnesota attorney general's office hit a dead end looking into a tip about widespread child labor in the small town of Worthington almost three years before the U.S. Department of Labor ...
A list of other measures that could be used to prohibit and eliminate the worst forms of child labour (Article III(15)); That enhanced international cooperation and/or assistance among ratifying countries for the prohibition and effective elimination of the worst forms of child labour should complement national efforts (Article III(16)).
A measure has been introduced in the U.S. House to ban imported products containing minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries but mined through child labor and other abusive conditions in ...
The Convention requires of states that ratify the convention to take immediate ‘time-bound measures’ to secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour. The countries have some policies and programmes in place to help eliminate child labour, but none of them as yet have comprehensive strategies to address these ...