Working children and young people
- Working children’s perspective of child labour
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This study determines working children’s perspective of child labour, its benefits and disadvantages and the working children’s perceptions of themselves, and their aspirations for the future.
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- Recommendations for ensuring access to education for the hard-to-reach children
- ( A. Kielland;F. Rosati / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway , 2008)
- As the Education for All process is progressing, two main groups of children are still left out: those who have yet to gain access to a good primary school; and, those who do not get to attend e...
- The determinants of child labour in Afghanistan
- ( A. Sim;M.L. Hoilund-Carlsen / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit , 2009)
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Child labour anywhere in the world potentially harms child development. In Afghanistan too, child labour prevails despite government regulation that mandates the minimum working age ...
- Adolescents and the Sustainable Livelihoods approach
- ( N. Brown / United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2001)
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How can adolescents’ livelihoods be made sustainable rather than exploitative? How can the demands of work be better reconciled with educational, health and social needs? This paper, prepared...
- How to end child labour in cocoa production?
- ( International Labor Rights Forum , 2008)
- This document reviews the outcome of a policy instrument drafted in 2001, the “Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products,” also known as the Hark...
- An overview of the children of seasonal migrants in India
- ( Smita (first name only) / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity , 2008)
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There are still many categories of children in India for whom adequate and appropriate strategies are not in place for their effective education. One such category are the children of sea...
- Why might rural households in Afghanistan send their children out to work?
- ( P. Hunte;A. Hozyainova;C. Bassett (ed) / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit , 2008)
- This case study is the second in a three-part series examining household decision making on the use of child labour in urban and rural Afghanistan. In contrast to the other two studies in the series, ...
- Worst forms of child labour in Peru
- ( A. Ensing / Foundation for International Research on Working Children , 2008)
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In 1973, the ILO adopted its Minimum Age Convention (No. 138), which requires states to design and apply national policies to ensure the effective abolition of all forms of child labour and to set ...
- An assessment of job creation ventures in South Africa
- ( A. Bernstien (ed) / Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa , 2008)
- Unemployment of young people aged between 15 and 24 is South Africa's primary policy challenge, and there have been various job creation schemes. This paper reports on a research project aimed at surv...
- A positive stigma model on child labour in Guatemala
- ( M. Najeeb Shafiq;H.A. Patrinos / Education Section, Human Development Department, World Bank , 2008)
- Using data from Guatemala, this study introduces a model that assumes a positive stigma (or norm) toward child labour that is common in some developing countries. The analysis uses two instruments for...
- Social issues as a consequence of economic development and social reforms in Vietnam
- ( G.T. Long (ed) / Vietnam Development Forum , 2008)
- This is the second of two volumes looking at social issues in transition economies in reference to Vietnam....
