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WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR 2011 - GIRL BRICK LAYER - INDIA

 

A 9-year-old girl toils under the hot sun, making bricks from morning to night, seven days a week. She was trafficked with her entire family from Bihar, one of the poorest and most underdeveloped states in India, and sold to the owner of a brick-making factory. With no means of escape, and unable to speak the local language, the family is isolated and lives in terrible conditions.

 

A 9-year-old girl toils under the hot sun, making bricks from morning to night, seven days a week.

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ILO - WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR 2011 - GIRLS

 

Children in Hazardous Work - New Report  - Direct Link: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/@publ/documents/publication/wcms_155428.pdf

 

The ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) will issue the study entitled “Children in hazardous work: what we know, what we need to do” for the day. The report analyzes the latest trends and estimates of children in hazardous work, and the risk to their health from such work as agriculture, mining, construction, manufacturing, domestic work and waste-picking.

The report looks at the issue of children in hazardous work both from a developed and developing country perspective, including the US and Europe. It also offers a series of policy recommendations to address this problem.

Events to mark the World Day against Child Labour will involve governments, employers, workers, and UN, non-governmental and civil society organizations. Events range from high-level policy debates to public and media events, awareness-raising campaigns, cultural performances and other public activities

The new report and an executive summary will be available to the media on June 10. In addition, the ILO will hold a panel discussion on children in hazardous work on the same day at the International Labour Conference. Later in the afternoon, hundreds of Geneva school children will mark the day with a “Children’s solidarity event” at the Place des Nations organized by the “Le Respect, ça change la Vie” community association, in cooperation with the ILO.

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