• Strategies to tackle child labour

Strategies to tackle child labour

This technical guide looks at what is being done to combat the kind of child labour that needs to be eliminated and examines modern responses to the phenomenon of child labour as embodied in policy and legislation. It covers:

• where and how the lines have been drawn between the types and arrangements of work that have no harmful effect on children and those that do
• how countries have expressed their antipathy to child labour and created institutions to combat it
• how governments have responded to children not getting a proper education 
• how governments have responded to adults’ exploitation of child labour.
  

The guide is organised according to a number of phenomena giving rise to responses to, among other things:

• children doing work that is neither hazardous to them nor to their educational prospects
• children doing hazardous work 
• children not going to school 
• children being used in commercial sexual exploitation 
• children being used in slavery-like practices 
• the inability of institutions to enforce laws prohibiting child labour.
  

The guide also looks at existing policy and legislative responses to the full spectrum of children’s work, from that deemed permissible, to the very worst forms. For conceptual ease, the examination of responses begins with children’s work generally, moves on to light work and work done in the context of education, and then turns to unacceptable work, including the worst forms of child labour.

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