Accelerating action against child labour Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights to Work
- Document number
- 2357
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Accelerating action against child labour Global Report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights to Work
- Author/publisher
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
- Summary
- The focus of this third Global Report on child labour under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work is about honouring the commitments made in 2006 with the adoption of a Global Action Plan. The Action Plan set out time-bound targets for the elimination of child labour. Important obligations and commitments were entered into by ILO constituents. Four years is a short time to ensure major change, but it does, however, permit the Organization to take stock and gauge progress. In particular we need to know whether the world is on track to meeting the target of eliminating all the worst forms of child labour by 2016. To this end, this Global Report adopts the same four-part structure as the two previous Reports. Part I presents a dynamic global picture, updating global trends introduced in the 2006 Global Report and setting out progress in the ratification of ILO standards. Part II reviews the progress made in implementing the Global Action Plan. From this review, Part III examines key challenges and gaps that remain and how these can be addressed. Finally, Part IV sets out an agenda to accelerate progress towards meeting the 2016 target. Part II reviews responses to the 2006 Global Action Plan by the ILO and its partners under the three strategic pillars. There have been considerable achievements in each of the three areas, particularly as regards the worldwide movement. This is encouraging given that strengthening the worldwide movement was viewed four years ago as perhaps the major challenge. Part III of the Report examines the remainingchallenges in a more systematic way. In the broader context of progress on the MDGs and, in particular, the pace regarding universal primary education, the signs are not too encouraging. Part IV does not present a new detailed action plan as the Global Action Plan contained in the 2006 Report continues to be valid. Rather, in this concluding section of the Report an attempt is made to clarify the key elements of a future agenda. This analysis is set alongside the likely impact of the recent financial and economic crisis which has the potential to impede or roll back progress. The Report argues that the global crisis nevertheless offers many opportunities to redouble efforts and arrive at innovative solutions, not least in fashioning new financial instruments. This report can be accessed here.
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