Pathfinder country

Chile

SDG indicator 8.7.1 Proportion of children engaged in economic activity
With household chores - age 5-17 (2012) Without household chores - age 5-17 (2012)
Total 2.3 % 5.9 %
Female 1.4 % 5.2 %
Male 3.3 % 6.7 %
SDG indicator 5.3.1 Proportion of women aged 20 - 24 years who were married or in a union before age 15 and before age 18
-
Before age 15
-
Before age 18
Latest ratifications - View all
C182
17 Jul 2000
Ratified
C187
27 Apr 2011
Ratified
P029
19 Jan 2021
Ratified
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population
2007
0.88
2008
2009
0.1
2010
0.76
2011
0.04
2012
0.45
2013
0.04
2014
0.04
2015
0.07
2016
0.03
2017
0.09
2018
0.19
2019
0.09
2020
2021
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking for forced labour, servitude and slavery, per 100,000 population
2007
0.35
2008
2009
2010
0.43
2011
2012
0.45
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
0.06
2018
2019
0.09
2020
2021
Source: ILO Normlex

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Priorities

  • Promote research and knowledge-sharing around SDG Target 8.7. Qualitative and quantitative studies ensure that data is generated and updated, while strengthening comprehensive lines of action around SDG Target 8.7. With support from UNICEF and the ILO, the country is taking steps toward implementing a new National Survey on Activities of Children and Adolescents in 2020.

Progress

Child Labour

  • Chile increased inter-sectoral coordination, by:
    • Establishing a commission for the prevention and elimination of Child Labour and inter-sectoral roundtables against Child Labour and Human trafficking.
    • Establishing a strategic alliance with business networks for children.
    • Incorporating new members to the Inter-sectoral Table on Trafficking in Persons that can offer targeted assistance to victims with a particular focus: children and adolescents, trafficking in crisis and emergency situations and trafficking in persons with disabilities.
    • Actively engaging with regional bodies on the prevention and eradication of child labour and through the intersectoral roundtable on trafficking in persons.
  • Chile has been named by the Department of State of the United States Government, again (seventh consecutive year) as a country that complies with the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, in accordance with the TVPA Act of the United States and the UN Palermo Protocol. The group of countries that meet these standards are defined in the “Trafficking in Persons Report 2020” at Level 1 known as TIER 1.
  • Along with the Memorandum of Understanding on Trafficking in Persons in force with Ecuador, Chile has an Agreement in force with Peru and Memorandums of Understanding with Argentina and Colombia on prevention, investigation and protection of victims of trafficking in persons.
  • Through the incorporation of Chile as a Pathfinder Country of the Alliance 8.7, public policies associated with the prevention and eradication of child labour and human trafficking converged, and synergies and gaps have been identified.
  • Chile is increasing capacity and awareness on child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking through a series of national and regional workshops, awareness raising activities, including, among others, the launch of the national Campaigns “Chile sin trabajo infantil” and #ChileSinTrata and several regional activities on the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour.
  • Chile has increased training on child labour, forced labour and human trafficking for civil servants, Government officials, the police, educators and others.

Human Trafficking

  • At the international level, Chile played an active part in increasing international cooperation on the subjects of Child Labour, Forced Labour and Human trafficking in the following manner:
    • Under the framework of the “Memorandum of Understanding on Prevention, Investigation and Protection of Victims of Trafficking in Persons” between the Ministries of the Interior of Chile and Ecuador, a Binational Road Map was established to exchange good practices regarding the prevention of trafficking of children and adolescents.
    • Technical assistance was given to Paraguay on the implementation of the national strategy for the eradication of child labour and protection of adolescent workers 2015-2025
    • Active participation in the Regional Initiative Latin America and Caribbean Free of Child Labour
    • Workshops were organised with the financial support of the Chilean international cooperation agency on the detection and referral of victims of human trafficking in Central America
  • Chile presented a draft law to update the regulations on the hiring of children and adolescents. It focuses on their rights, includes maximum daily working hours and an increase in the fine for failing to request an aptitude test for mining work for persons under 22 years of age.
  • Chile has developed a strategy to generate labour opportunities for families with children in child labour.
  • Chile is increasing its knowledge base on child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking through:
    • Collaboration with Academic Institutions (to encourage students at the University to prepare undergraduate theses or research work on child labour), with the Andrés Bello University, Santo Tomas University, Finis Terrae University and with ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean).
    • The development of the national survey on children and adolescent activities (to be implemented in 2021) and the annual update and publication of statistical information on trafficking in persons.

International Instruments

Area Ilo Instrument Status Ratification date CEACR comments
Child Labour
C138
Ratification of C138 - Minimum Age Convention (1973)
In Force 01 Feb 1999
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C182
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
In Force 17 Jul 2000
Child Labour, Modern Slavery
C029
Forced Labour Convention (1930)
In Force 31 May 1933
Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
P029
Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention (1930)
In Force 19 Jan 2021
Forced Labour, Modern Slavery
C105
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (1957)
In Force 01 Feb 1999
Freedom of Association
C087
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948)
In Force 01 Feb 1999
Freedom of Association
C098
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949)
In Force 01 Feb 1999
Discrimination
C100
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
In Force 20 Sep 1971
Discrimination
C111
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958)
In Force 20 Sep 1971
Occupational Safety and Health
C187
Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention (2006)
In Force 27 Apr 2011

Milestones

2017

Chile develops a National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights and updates its list of hazardous occupations prohibited for children, trains labour inspectors and develops a child labour inspection manual.

2015

The Chilean government establishes the National Strategy to Eradicate Child Labour and Protection of Adolescent Workers and updates the National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons.

2015

Update of a National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons (2015-2018)

2014

Chile sets up a National Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Child Labour and the Protection of Adolescent Workers.

2008

Chile creates a National Intersectorial Table on Trafficking in Persons.

RESOURCES
Chile
TALLER ESTRATÉGICO ALIANZA 8.7 CHILE
Chile Pathfinder Country Progress Report 2021-2022
Chile Pathfinder Country Progress Report 2021-2022