Work can have many benefits for children. Policy responses need to understand and foster those benefits, not succumb to biases that assume all work is bad.
On the occasion of the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, it is time to listen to working children on what works for them – and what doesn’t.
The ILO, UNICEF, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child promote policies known to harm children. What will make them engage with their critics?
Working children have been prevented from attending the ILO’s child labour conference, currently taking place in Buenos Aires. So they set up their own conference instead.
Por la defensa global de la dignidad y el buen vivir de las niñas, niños y adolescentes trabajadores. English
After being excluded from the IV Global Conference on the Eradication of Child Labour, working children and adolescents complain to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Español
For the global defence of the dignity and well-being of children and adolescents who work. Español
The working children of Senegal have long organised to educate, support, and protect one another from the everyday violence of life on the streets.
As the UN considers its position on child labour, a global group of experts lay out the case against a universal minimum age. Blanket bans cannot prevent exploitation, only more nuanced approaches do that.
If the conversation at the ILO's ‘high level panel discussion on child labour’ had lived up to its name the world might have started to make progress on this important issue. Español
Working children everywhere reject the mainstream anti-child labour paradigm. A major new video campaign tells us why.
As the UN considers its position on child labour, a group of academics and practitioners have engaged in open debate with Human Rights Watch over the utility of minimum age rules. This is the third letter in a series.
