Child labour shall not be used

ETI Resources

This is an outline page for this new section of the ETI website, which will be developed on an ongoing basis to provide a list of key resources on this topic. Suggestions for material to include on this page are welcome!

• Key international conventions
• ETI documents
• Other online resources
• For more information

 

 

Key international conventions

C138 – Minimum Age Convention, 1973

This Convention provides that the minimum working age should not be less than the age for completing compulsory schooling and in no event less than 15 (14 in limited circumstances in less developed countries).
More rigorous standards apply in the case of hazardous work where the minimum age may not be less than 18.
Also relevant to this Convention: R146 Minimum Age Recommendation, 1973

C182 – Worst Forms of Child labour Convention 1999

This Convention calls for a proactive strategy to achieve the elimination of child slavery, forced or compulsory labour, child prostitution, pornography, drug trafficking or other work which is likely to harm the health, safety or morals of children.
Also relevant to this Convention: R190 Worst Forms of Child Labour Recommendation, 1999

 

 

ETI documents

ETI Activities: Experimental Projects: Child Labour project

ETI Library:

• ETI comment - Eliminating child labour: an urgent, and shared responsibility - A comment by Dan Rees, Director of the Ethical Trading Initiative (plus FAQ about child labour) (Nov 2007)
• Conference 2003 Report: Chapter 11 - What role for the private sector in preventing, identifying and remedying child labour?
• Review of the literature on child labour in Tamil Nadu (May 2002)
• Case Study: The ETI Child Labour Project (2001-2002)
• Final Report on ETI Child Labour Project 2001-2004

 

 

Other online resources

UNICEF report on the State of the World’s Children
www.unicef.org/crc

UNICEF’s Innocenti site also has regional information from Latin America and SE Asia
www.unicef-icdc.org

ILO International Programme on the elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) and
ILO Statistical Information and Monitoring Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC) information on both from
www.ilo.org
In particular see:
ILO, various guides and reports on combating child labour, Geneva, International Labour Organisation (ILO). These can be viewed and ordered on-line at:
www.ilo.org/public/english/support/publ/intro/index.htm

Global March Against Child Labour
www.globalmarch.org

Save the Children UK
Big Business, Small Hands: Responsible Approaches to Child Labour; London, Save the Children UK, 2000. This can be ordered on-line from the Save the Children Website at:
www.savethechildren.org.uk.

ECLT Foundation
A tripartite organisation premised on the model of ETI involving unions, producers and corporate members from the tobacco industry working against child labour:
www.eclt.org.

 

 

For more information

We welcome suggestions for highly relevant links and print material to list here, bearing in mind that it is intended to be a very selective resource. Please include:

1. full URL (address for internet links) and/or bibliographic details and how to obtain a copy (print materials), and
2. a clear indication of where you think the listing would be most appropriate.

Please send suggestions to adil@eti.org.uk
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