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  Generating decent work for young people

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This paper summarises some of the main global trends related to youth unemployment and underemployment. It highlights some of the key issues involved in generating decent work - in conditions of freedom, equality, security and human dignity for young women and men.
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  Stop the traffic!

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This paper discusses the current child trafficking situation in the UK, trafficking trends across different international regions and proposes necessary interventions to prevent future trafficking and to protect and rehabilitate victims of trafficking.The primary cause of child trafficking is the demand, both for cheap labour in growing economies and in the commercial sex industry.
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  Ghana: the Accra urban food and nutrition study

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper reports on an IFPRI analysis of urban food and nutrition security in Accra, conducted with the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana and the WHO.The main goal of the research project was to determine how the strategies employed by the urban poor to secure their livelihoods affect households’ food security, the care of children, and their resulting health and nutrit
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  Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

  World Bank, 1998

  Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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  Lasting wounds: consequences of genocide and war on Rwanda's children

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report documents widespread violations of the rights of the child in post-genocide Rwanda.
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  The US Department of Labor’s 2002 findings on the worst forms of child labor

  International Child Labor Program, USA, 2003

  US Government report on child labour conditions in 146 developing countries Each country profiles describes the extent of child labour in the countries and territories, the type of work that children are doing, the laws and enforcement policies that exist to protect them and the efforts that have been made by their governments to meet international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of ch
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  Tanzania: child labour in the informal sector: a rapid assessment

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This report presents the findings of a rapid assessment study conducted in Arusha, Dar Es Salaam and Mwanza regions to investigate activities performed by working children in the informal sector.Some of the main findings from this study include: There were more male working children in the informal sector activities investigated than females (9.6 %) ).
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  Viet Nam children in prostitution in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho: a rapid assessment

  International Labour Organization, 2002

  This rapid assessment provides some limited insight into the situation of young people involved in prostitution in Viet Nam. The bulk of the information is based on interviews with 122 children, with brothel owners and with pimps (the latter two actors rarely, if ever, studied) in four locations in the North and South sides of the country.
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  Children first in the poverty battle!

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This document argues that a more prominent role should be given to child poverty issues in the southern African PRSP process.The PRSP’s contribution to reducing child poverty depends on: Location of children and child poverty within the demographic and poverty profiles that frame national PRSPs Economic policy choices that prioritise sustainable pro-poor growth and development

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