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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- Child labour and tobacco farming in Malawi
- ( G. Clacherty / Plan , 2009)
- Malawi has the highest incidence of child labour in Southern Africa. 88.9% of children in the age group 5-14 work in the agricultural sector, where tobacco estates are highly represented. The number o...
- The nature and extent of child labour in Malawi
- ( M. Tsoka;S. Konyani / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi , 2003)
- Malawi is one of the countries selected to implement the International Labour Organisation/International Programme on the Elimination of Child’s Labour (ILO/IPEC’s) “Regional Program...
- How hunger contributes to child labour in Malawi
- ( A.C. Munthali / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi , 2003)
- In 2002, the majority of Malawians were seriously affected by famine, which was only comparable to the one that occurred in 1949. The occurrence of flooding in some areas of Malawi and incidences of p...
- 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 ...
