Introduction
According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, all children are equal and have human rights such as the right to food, shelter, health care, education and freedom from violence, neglect and exploitation. The Convention also states the right of children to express their views freely in all matters affecting their lives, and the right to be listened and their views being given due weight [...]
Key definitions __________________
Setting the Scene: child labour
by ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
Child labour is a global phenomenon and is found in all regions of the world, in both developing and industrialised countries. Globally, an estimated 218 million children – defined as persons under 18 years of age - carry out economic activities which harms, abuses and exploits them or hinders their education, development and future livelihoods. It must be stressed that not all work that children undertake is bad for them or would qualify as work to be eliminated under the ILO Minimum Age Convention No. 138 [...]
Lessons learned_________________
The Children's Voice: Visions and Experiences from the Rural Working Children
by Giselle Silva
Studies and programmes addressing child labour issues are often carried out by and with adults. This article resets the focus where it should be, that is, on the children themselves: their feelings, their thoughts, the reasons why they are working, their perceptions on their present and their future. Through a participatory research, the study provides a bottom-up view of the working children's realitiy in Peru, identifying its determinants and its effects on the children's personal, familiar, social and educational life [...in Spanish]
Working Children’s Movements in South America
by Marten van der Berge
This article is based on the research undertaken by Marten van der Berge in 2007 on the working children’s movements in Peru and Bolivia. It is a part of a larger study, whose main objective was to analyse how working children in developing countries are organised, and how, by their participation in organised movements, they have effected changes in their working circumstances, in their self-esteem and in their prospects [...]
Rooting out child labour from cocoa farms
by Sherin Khan and Una Murray
This article is based on the experiences gathered through the “West Africa Cocoa/Commercial Agriculture Project to Combat Hazardous and Exploitative Child labour”, launched in 2002 in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. This initiative set up a community-based child labour monitoring component aimed at raising public awareness on the problem of child labour, identifying child labourers engaged in cocoa and commercial agriculture farming and the risks they are exposed to, preventing child labourers from undertaking hazardous activities and verifying the availability of satisfactory alternatives [...].
The Time-Bound Programme for the Reduction of Child Labour in Ghana. Child Labour Committes and Community-Based Information and Monitoring Systems
by FAO and Humboldt University
This article is based on the research project “Child Labour and Children’s Economic Activities in Agriculture in Ghana”, jointly initiated by the FAO and Humboldt University. It highlights the knowledge gaps on child labour issues prevailing in the agricultural sector and provides recommendations on how to address them [...]
Selected documents from FAO International Partnership for Cooperation on Child Labour in Agriculture, ILO, FAO, IFAD, IFPRI/CGIAR, IFAP, IUF, EN, 2007 SARD and...child labour, Hart, N; Termine, P.; Dey de Pryck, J.; Hurst, P. et al., Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development policy brief No. 2/2007, EN, FR, ES SARD and...children and youth, Naranjo, S.; Villarreal, M.; Hurst, P.; Larsen, J.; Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development policy brief No. 8/2007, EN, FR, ES. Giving children back their youth, FAO, EN, FR, ES, 2007 Harvest for the future: agriculture without child labour, ILO, FAO, IFAD, IFPRI/CGIAR, IFAP, and the IUF, 2007 |
Tools and Methods_______________
Gender Equality and Child Labour: a participatory tool for facilitators
Participatory child labour programming
Participatory action-oriented research on the worst forms of child labour
Eliminating hazardous child labour step by step
Websites ______________________
ILO IPEC – Child labour by sector: Agriculture
NSW Commission for Children and Young People - Participation kit
Childwatch International Research Network - child labour
International Research on Working Children (IREWOC)
Food, Agriculture & Decent Work - Child labour in agriculture
Child Right Information Network (CRIN) – Right theme: Participation
Childhood Agricultural Safety Network (CASN)
Global March Against Child Labour: Principles of Child Participation and Protection
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
Save the Children Sweden – resources on child participation
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