International Labour Organisation

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International Labour Organisation
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• The ILO formulates international labour
  standards in the form of Conventions and
  Recommendations setting minimum standards of
  basic labour rights freedom of association, the
  right to organise, collective bargaining,
  abolition of forced labour, equality of
  opportunity and treatment and other standards
  addressing conditions across the entire spectrum
  of work-related issues

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• The ILO's diverse tasks are grouped under four
  strategic objectives

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The four strategic objectives

• Promote and realise standards and fundamental
  principles and rights at work
• Create greater opportunities for women and men to
  secure decent employment and income
• Enhance the coverage and effectiveness of social
  protection for all
• Strengthen tripartism and social dialogue

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• The ILO accomplishes its work through three main
  bodies, all of which comprise government,
  employer and worker representatives.

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• The ILO and its partners stand for a world where
  no girl or boy is forced to work at the expense
  of their health and development or their future
  prospects of decent work. A future without child
  labour is at last within reach.

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• Significant progress is being made worldwide in
  combating child labour. The new global estimates
  of trends reinforce this message of hope.
  However, a strong and sustained global movement
  is needed to provide the extra push towards
  eliminating the scourge of child labour

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Defining child labour

• The term child labour is often defined as work
  that deprives children of their childhood, their
  potential and their dignity, and that is harmful
  to physical and mental development.

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• It refers to work that
• is mentally, physically, socially or morally
  dangerous and harmful to children and
• interferes with their schooling by
• depriving them of the opportunity to attend
  school
• obliging them to leave school prematurely or
• requiring them to attempt to combine school
  attendance with excessively long and heavy work.

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Action against child labour

• International Program on the Elimination of
  Child Labour (IPEC) aim is the progressive
  elimination of child labour worldwide, with the
  eradication of the worst forms an urgent
  priority.

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• IPEC works to build the capacities of labour
  inspectorates and other enforcement agencies to
  take action against child labour, especially in
  respect of hazardous child labour and child
  labour monitoring.

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• Since it began operations in 1992, IPEC has
  worked to achieve concrete measures to end child
  labour and through awareness raising and
  mobilisation intended to change social attitudes
  and promote ratification and effective
  implementation of ILO child labour Conventions.

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• These efforts have resulted in hundreds of
  thousands of children being withdrawn from work
  and rehabilitated or prevented from entering the
  workforce. Complementary to this direct
  action throughout has been substantial in-depth
  statistical and qualitative research, policy and
  legal analysis, program evaluation and child
  labour monitoring

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Child labour monitoring (CLM)

• CLM is the active process involves the
  identification, referral, protection and
  prevention of child labourers through the
  development of a coordinated multi-sector
  monitoring and referral process that aims to
  cover all children living in a given geographical
  area.