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Priorities
- Support (financially) businesses, local authorities and multi stakeholder approach through FBK, ACCEL, WNCB
- Support and raise awareness through activities and campaigns among businesses to child labour and forced labour in their supply chains.
- Share practical tips/suggestions and innovative solutions to upscale efforts
- Develop and implement voluntary and non-voluntary instruments by the government
- Develop and implement plans involved to activate and support businesses and other stakeholders to tackle child labour and forced labour in their supply chains.
- Prevent and combat labour exploitation as a result of labour migration at national level.
- Keeping the efforts to combat child labour in supply chains on the agenda, nationally and internationally
- Link eradication of child labour to root causes, living wage / income and quality education
- Stimulate (multistakeholder) dialogue on the elimination of child labour among different target groups and within broader themes such as decent work and RBC
- Contribute to an effective monitoring system worldwide in the context of Alliance 8.7
- Share challenges and opportunities via (interim) evaluations and results, and good practices of our programmes
- Support the execution of targeted research on child labour
International Instruments
Area | Ilo Instrument | Status | Ratification date | CEACR comments |
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Child Labour | C138 Ratification of C138 - Minimum Age Convention (1973) |
In Force | 14 Sep 1976 | |
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery | C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999) |
In Force | 14 Feb 2002 | |
Child Labour, Modern Slavery | C029 Forced Labour Convention (1930) |
In Force | 31 Mar 1933 | |
Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery | P029 Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention (1930) |
In Force | 08 Aug 2017 | |
Forced Labour, Modern Slavery | C105 Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (1957) |
In Force | 18 Feb 1959 | |
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery | C181 Private Employment Agencies Convention (1997) |
In Force | 15 Sep 1999 | |
Freedom of Association | C087 Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948) |
In Force | 07 Mar 1950 | |
Freedom of Association | C098 Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949) |
In Force | 22 Dec 1993 | |
Discrimination | C100 Equal Remuneration Convention (1951) |
In Force | 16 Jun 1971 | |
Discrimination | C111 Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958) |
In Force | 15 Mar 1973 | |
Occupational Safety and Health | C155 Occupational Safety and Health Convention (1981) |
In Force | 22 May 1991 |
Area | UN Treaty | Signature date | Ratification date | Status |
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Child Labour | IV-11 Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) |
26 Jan 1990 | 6 Feb 1995 A | Acceptance |
Child Labour | IV-11-c Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography (2000) |
7 Sep 2000 | 23 Aug 2005 | |
Forced Labour, Human Trafficking | PALERMO_PROTOCOL Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000) |
12 Dec 2000 | 27 Jul 2005 A | Acceptance |
Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery | XVIII-4 Ratification of the Supplementary Convention on the Abolition and of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery (1956) |
7 Sep 1956 | 3 Dec 1957 |