Action Against Child Labour

Action Against Child Labour
Author: Nelien Haspels
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2000
Genre: Child labor
ISBN: 9221108686

Comprehensive and timely, this essential book provides a wealth of practical information on planning and carrying out action against child labor. Offering an array of effective strategies, instruments, methodologies, and information, it stresses a multi-pronged approach to combating child labor on several fronts: economic, educational, social, and cultural. It provides striking examples of effective legislation, policies, programs, and projects, and offers step-by-step guidelines for their precise implementation. Action Against Child Labor examines in depth the vital functions of national policies and programs against child labor, while providing valuable insight on developing and improving existing policy, setting priorities for action, capacity building, and creating social alliances. In addition, it spotlights ways to improve the knowledge base on child labor, provides technical and practical guidelines for designing and conducting surveys, and offers insights on obtaining information on children. Compiled by an array of child labor experts, this invaluable resource will help governments, employers' and workers' organizations, and NGOs contribute to eliminating child labor.

Investing in Every Child

Investing in Every Child
Author: International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
Publisher: International Labour Organisation
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789221154198

One in every six children aged 5 to 17 worldwide is exploited by child labour in its different forms, according to estimates made by the ILO in 2002. Many of these children are forced to risk their health and their lives and mortgage their future as productive adults.The report draws on a large range of data, including detailed country data from Brazil, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, Ukraine, Pakistan, Nepal and the Philippines. More information has raised awareness of the scale of the problem and given new urgency to developing and financing policies and programmes to remove children from work situations. More knowledge has also provoked new questions about the cost of removing children from work, providing them witheducation and ensuring them a decent childhood. At the same time, policymakers are also enquiring to what extent the effective abolition of child labour will pay off for national development and poverty reduction, and how children and their families stand to gain.

Child Labour

Child Labour
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organization
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789221103288

Drawing on the experience of the ILO, including its International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour, this report surveys international and national law and practice and points the way towards effective action through new international standards. Submitted to the 174 ILO member States, this is a timely report, invaluable to all those who are working to bring to a halt such abusive conditions as bonded labour, child prostitution, and the exposure of children to dangerous chemicals, machinery and other hazards.

"I Must Work to Eat"

Author: Jo Becker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2021
Genre: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
ISBN:

"The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance, is pushing children into exploitative and dangerous child labor. As their parents have lost jobs or income due to the pandemic and associated lockdowns, many children have entered the workforce to help their families survive. Many work long, grueling hours for little or no pay, often under hazardous conditions. Some report violence, harassment, and pay theft. [This report] is based on interviews conducted from January to March 2021 with 81 children, ages 8-17, in Ghana, Nepal, and Uganda.... The report examines the impact of the pandemic on children's rights, including their rights to education, to an adequate standard of living, and to protection from child labor, as well as government responses."--Page 4 of cover.

Combating Child Labour A Review of Policies

Combating Child Labour A Review of Policies
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2003-09-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9264102957

This important book seeks to answer fundamental questions about child labour’s economic causes, the working conditions children endure, implications of their labour for the economic outlook of the countries concerned, and actions and policies to combat it.

A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty

A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 619
Release: 2019-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309483980

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.

Economics of Child Labour

Economics of Child Labour
Author: Biswajit Chatterjee
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811381992

This book examines the effectiveness of trade and non-trade policies to combat the menace of child labour. Although it has decreased on the global scale in recent years, child labour still remains high, particularly in the developing countries. Keeping in mind the estimated extent of child labour in different regions around the globe, the book offers a detailed critical review of both theoretical and empirical literature on the topic as well as the policies to reduce the incidence of child labour. It also develops a general equilibrium model to demonstrate the possible effects of growth-promoting, non-trade policies, as opposed to direct trade policies, on child labour employment mitigation. The book argues that of the non-trade policies, the introduction of compulsory education appears to be an effective instrument for curtailing the child labour problem when families receive targeted subsidies for sending their children to school. It also shows that appropriately designed and targeted education subsidies can reduce the incidence of child labour and that social protection measures, such as subsidies on school enrolment, also tend to have a positive impact. The book not only opens up research topics for academicians but is also a valuable resource for policy makers.