Publications and resources
Just released
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Annual Report on IPEC activities
IPEC action against child labour 2010-2011: Progress and future priorities
10 May 2012This Implementation Report provides a summary of the work of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour during 2010-2011. It also provides an overview of significant developments during the biennium including the Global Conference on child labour, new global estimates on child labour and the adoption by the ILO of a Global Action Plan on the elimination of child labour.
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Workshop on hazardous work
Workshop "Creating safe futures: Good practices to protect children and youth from hazardous work"
27 April 2012In recognition of World Day Against Child Labour 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO), joined efforts to host a workshop on good practices to protect children and youth from hazardous work.
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Good practices
Practices with good potential - Towards the elimination of hazardous child labour
15 March 2012This report outlines the problem of hazardous child labour and highlights possible solutions. Although it is too early to say, in most cases, that the activities included here are proven "good practices" ready for emulation, nonetheless items in this selection have already demonstrated some unique or notable elements.
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Forthcoming
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Guidelines
STEP by STEP: The tripartite process of determining hazardous work of children - Guide for facilitators
31 May 2012The Guide has been developed to aid countries in taking a key step toward protecting young people from hazardous work by determining what work is to be prohibited due to the danger it poses to their physical, psychological, or moral health... commonly called, the “Hazardous child labour list”.
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World Report
The 2012 World Report on Child Labour: Economic vulnerability, social protection and child labour
15 October 2012How can we reduce child labour in the less favourable circumstances of a global economic slowdown?
Key publications
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Report
Children in hazardous work: What we know, what we need to do
10 June 2011This 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.
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Global report
Accelerating action against child labour. Report of the Director-General, International Labour Conference, 99th session, 2010
07 May 2010In its 2010 Global Report on child labour, the ILO said that the global number of child labourers had declined from 222 million to 215 million, or 3 per cent, over the period 2004 to 2008, representing a “slowing down of the global pace of reduction.”
Research and statistiques
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Report
Joining forces against child labour - Inter-agency report for The Hague Global Child Labour Conference of 2010
07 May 2010A report by UCW programme calls for child labour to be placed at the forefront of national development agendas and presents a range of evidence indicating that child labour constitutes an important impediment to national development.
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Report
Global child labour developments: Measuring trends from 2004 to 2008
07 May 2010The latest trend report provides new global and regional estimates on child labour for the year 2008 and compares them with the previous 2004 estimates.
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Training material
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Training manual
20 December 2011
This resource material considers the links between tackling child labour and promoting Education for All.
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Guidelines
Children formerly associated with armed forces and groups. “How-to” guide on economic reintegration
12 November 2010This Guide provides operational and detailed guidance to design and implement the economic component of reintegration programmes for children formerly associated with armed forces and groups and other conflict-affected children.
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Good practices
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Hazardous work
Practices with good potential - Towards the elimination of hazardous child labour
15 March 2012This publication outlines the problem of hazardous child labour and highlights possible solutions.
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Good practices on child labour 2010
07 May 2010During the Global Child Labour Conference 2010 (The Hague, The Netherlands) IPEC and its partners have launched 22 good practices (GPs) from all over the world. These GPs describe interesting initiatives that are making a difference in fighting child labour.
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Legislation
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Guidelines
Modern policy and legislative responses to child labour
15 December 2007This guide examines of modern responses to child labour as embodied in policy and legislation.
IPEC - What it is and what is does
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Annual Report on IPEC activities
IPEC action against child labour 2010-2011: Progress and future priorities
10 May 2012The IPEC's implementation report provides information about the Programme's activities worldwide during 2010-2011.
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Brochure
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) - What it is and what is does
07 May 2010This new publication provides a summary of the role and activities of IPEC Programme.
In the Media
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Video
Child labour in supply chains
14 March 2012With rapid globalization, the world is getting smaller, but supply chains are getting longer. How can businesses ensure ethical production, free from child labour and supportive of decent work for adults?
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Interview
Child labour problem in the fishing sector
2 February 2012Radio Exterior de España interviewed Jose Maria Ramirez Machado, IPEC technical specialist, on the child labour problem in the fishing sector. The interview starts around minute 07:11. (In Spanish)
IPECINFO database - Child labour resources
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PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES
on child labourThe IPECINFO database contains hundreds of publications and resources on child labour. You can make a search by type, theme, key words or language. The "Selected ressources" section (above) give you access to a selection of resources and the "Sectors and topics" section have resources by theme.
CL-INFO database - Child labour indicators
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Children's activities indicators
New database system that helps in organizing and presenting indicators of children's activities derived from SIMPOC-assisted national household surveys.