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Tunisia

SDG indicator 8.7.1 Proportion of children engaged in economic activity
With household chores - age 5-14 (2012) Without household chores - age 5-14 (2012)
Total 1.757 % 2.255 %
Female 1.108 % 1.439 %
Male 2.365 % 3.02 %
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
0.00%
Before age 15 (2018)
1.49%
Before age 18 (2018)
Latest ratifications - View all
C138
19 Oct 1995
Ratified
C182
28 Feb 2000
Ratified
C187
22 Jul 2021
Ratified
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking per 100,000 population
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
0.78
2012
2013
2014
2015
1.15
2016
2.41
2017
3.21
2018
6.43
2019
1.49
2020
2021
SDG indicator 16.2.2 Number of victims of human trafficking for forced labour, servitude and slavery, per 100,000 population
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
0.05
2016
0.24
2017
1.77
2018
3
2019
0.64
2020
2021
Source: ILO Normlex

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Priorities

  • Develop an information system for data collection and sharing among relevant public institutions. The available information and existing monitoring systems at the level of each ministerial department involved in the fight against child labour should be mapped. A regulatory framework for the collection and sharing of data should be put in place. A joint strategic plan between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Vocational Training should be developed, and the data collection of information in private schools should be institutionalized.
  • Develop a Child Labour Monitoring system at the national and regional levels for a better synergy among actors. Pilot evaluations and comparative experiments should be conducted, focal points at the level of the regional commissions should be designated, and structures adapted to the needs of children removed from child labour should be developed. Relevant procedure manuals should be prepared, in addition to regulatory texts and coordination protocols. A green line dedicated to the reporting of child labour cases should be established.
  • Improve the procedures and tools for labour inspectors to identify children, especially those in the informal economy. Proposals for regulatory texts to frame the intervention of labour inspectors in the informal sector should be elaborated, and a pilot experiment on child labour inspection of should be carried out in the informal sector in Greater Tunis.
  • Capitalize on and reinforce the capacity of student support service to sensitize children to child labour issues. Members of existing student support services should be trained on child labour issues to be able to sensitize students against it. The issue should be incorporated into school curricula and pre-service teacher training.

 

Progress

Child Labour

  • Launch of the second report on the situation of human trafficking in Tunisia (June 2019)
  • Development of a “monitoring model” on child labour to facilitate a more fluid and interoperable information and data transfer system (since May 2019)
  • Piloting the monitoring system developed as part of the “All against child labour” in North-Western and Central regions of the country.
  • Adoption of a new list of hazardous work prohibited for children under 18 years of age (April 2020)
  • Elaboration of a TV channel to raise awareness against child labour
  • Institutional capacity building has been the main field of intervention since March 2019, with the implementation of several training cycles and the development of training materials on child labour and awareness-raising.

 

International Instruments

Area Ilo Instrument Status Ratification date CEACR comments
Child Labour
C138
Ratification of C138 - Minimum Age Convention (1973)
In Force 19 Oct 1995
Child Labour, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery
C182
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention (1999)
In Force 28 Feb 2000
Child Labour, Modern Slavery
C029
Forced Labour Convention (1930)
In Force 17 Dec 1962
Forced Labour, Modern Slavery
C105
Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (1957)
In Force 12 Jan 1959
Freedom of Association
C087
Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention (1948)
In Force 18 Jun 1957
Freedom of Association
C098
Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention (1949)
In Force 15 May 1957
Discrimination
C100
Equal Remuneration Convention (1951)
In Force 11 Oct 1968
Discrimination
C111
Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention (1958)
In Force 14 Sep 1959
Occupational Safety and Health
C187
Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention (2006)
In Force 22 Jul 2021

Milestones

2018

Tunisia launches the National Strategy to Combat Trafficking in Persons and the National Action Plan against Trafficking in Persons.

2016

Tunisia adopts the National Action Plan to Combat Child Labour in Tunisia. The country adopts Law 2016-61 on the Prevention and Fight against Trafficking in Persons, which leads to the creation of the National Authority against Trafficking in Persons. The Ministry of Justice and IOM launch the first National Campaign against Trafficking in Persons in Tunisia, #Pas à vendre (#Not for sale).

2000

Tunisia signs, and later ratifies, the Palermo Protocol on Trafficking in Persons. The country commits to taking measures against transnational organized crime.

RESOURCES
Tunisie
Tunisie Annual Pathfinder Progress Report May 2021-April 2022