Working children and gender
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- Addressing exploitation of child domestic workers in Guinea
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2007)
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In Guinea tens of thousands of girls work as child domestic workers. They work long hours for little or no money, and are routinely deprived of adequate sleep, rest, food, health care and education...
- More than half of India’s children suffer abuse: findings from nationwide surveys
- ( L. Kacker;S. Varadan;P. Kumar / Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India , 2007)
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This document presents the findings of a nationwide study into the extent and characteristics of child abuse and girl neglect in India. The study is based on surveys of around 18,000 children, youn...
- Child domestic labour: an overview and practical responses
- ( B. Suriyasarn / United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women , 2006)
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Though domestic service work is the single largest employer of working girls worldwide, it is hidden from view and often overlooked in statistics on child labour.
This paper presents an... - Agriculture and poverty are key determinants of national child labour rates
- ( J. Fares; D. Raju / World Bank , 2007)
- This background paper to the 2007 World Development Report presents a comparative study of child labour across 65 developing countries. Drawing on data originally obtained from household sample survey...
- How does the work of boys and girls differ in the Latin America and Caribbean region?
- ( L. Guarcello; B. Henschel; S. Lyon; F. Rosati; C. Valdivia / Understanding Children's Work, Innocenti Research Centre , 2006)
- This study examines the child labour phenomenon in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region from a gender perspective. It represents part of a broader effort to improve understanding of how child ...
- Counting domestic work as child labour
- ( D. Zapata / WomenWatch, UN , 2006)
- This document argues that the participation of girls in child labour is underestimated by not taking into account household tasks. The lack of visibility of the intensity and hazardousness of this typ...
- The lives of children and youth working in and around the diamond mines of Kono Districe, Sierra Leone
- ( M. Bøås; A. Hatløy / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway , 2006)
- This report examines the living conditions of children and youth under 18 years old involved in diamond-related activities. The report documents the production of process of diamonds in Kono District...
- Quality education for girls is a prerequisite for stopping girl child labour
- ( UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education , 2006)
- In the Asia-Pacific region, girls’ labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and second...
- Best practices in eliminating child labour - a gender perspective
- ( International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour , 2005)
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This paper attempts to identify and document successful forms of intervention aimed at eliminating the worst forms of child domestic labour, taken from a gender perspective.
Some of the key lessons ...
- The situation of girl child domestic labourers in Morocco
- ( Human Rights Watch , 2005)
- This report looks at child labour by girls under age eighteen in Morocco who perform household tasks while living with their employers. The authors place special emphasis on the treatment of girls und...
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