Child labour: targeting the intolerable

Drawing on ILO action against child labour, including the experience of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC at a glance ) and other initiatives, this report chronicles the exploitation and abuse of working children, surveys international and national law and practice, and points the way toward effective practical action to remove children from debt bondage, prostitution and hazardous occupations and activities. It is accompanied by a questionnaire (Report VI (1): Questionnaire) which seeks the views of governments, in consultation with employers' and workers' organizations, on the possible scope and content of the proposed international legal instruments.