The State Secretariat for Labour was making tremendous efforts to eradicate child labour in the Dominican Republic.

Child labour, child kidnapping, child trafficking

Child labour

The Committee welcomes the Programme to Eradicate Child Labour (PETI), however it is deeply concerned at the high rates of informal employment of children, in particular in domestic labour.

(a) Strengthen the Programme to Eradicate Child Labour by supporting income generating initiatives for the families of children attended by the programme

Child labour in Brazil.

While child labour was prohibited he acknowledged that some child labour persisted in agricultural activities.

Progressive elimination of child labour

Mexican legislation prohibits child labour.

Eliminating forced and child labour

Eliminating abuses of child labour.

It is the exploitation of child labour rather than child labour per se which is objectionable.

Worst forms of child labour include child prostitution and trafficking.

Economic exploitation, including child labour (art.

Centre of Concern for Child Labour

In partnership with ILO, numerous initiatives had been launched to eradicate forced labour.

The Child Labour Eradication Programme targeted families with children under 16 who had previously been involved in child labour.

In addition, within the context of projects to eliminate child labour, national child labour surveys often provide statistical information about overtime child labour trends and are used as inputs for policy making.

Similarly, UNITAID is attacking child mortality through UNICEF s extensive program to eradicate mother to child HIV transmission.

Links between child labour and youth employment

Implement child labour and compulsory education laws

(a) Undertake studies to assess the incidence and nature of child labour, in particular the worst forms of child labour

Article 1 of the protocol requires parties to protect the rights and interests of child victims of trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography, child labour and especially the worst forms of child labour.

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

Child labour, education and indigenous and tribal peoples

Research on ethnicity and child labour in Nepal

19.2 Measures to address exploitation of child labour.

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In addition, UNICEF initiated studies on child labour, child detention and violence against children.

Considerable progress had also been made in combating child labour through a new Labour Code.

Economic exploitation, including child labour (art. 32) The Labour Code promulgated in Royal Decree No.

Ms. Ferrer Gómez said that the presence of 42.8 per cent of women over the age of 10 years in the labour force (CEDAW BSWG 2004 II CRP.2 Add.1, p. 8) contradicted the State party's initiatives to eradicate child labour.

35. The long standing efforts of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to protect working children and abolish child labour have received added impetus with the establishment of the Interdepartmental Project on Elimination of Child Labour (INTERDEP) and the International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC).

Efforts to combat child labour should be stepped up.

Modalities of indigenous children being involved in child labour.

(d) The exploitation of child labour and debt bondage

Educational and vocational training to prevent child labour exploitation

Problems such as armed conflict, child labour, child trafficking and HIV AIDS create serious impediments.

These are characterised by a bipolar system consisting of a rural base, purveyor of child labour, and an urban target, the consumer of child labour.

But rather than thinking rationally, the government only says we need to eradicate child labor.

Those measures should also encompass the elimination of child labour.

Work has begun on a child labour project with AGFUND.

A number of thematic studies were prepared in mother and child care, education and child labour.

As for Canada's remarks concerning forced labour, Myanmar continued to cooperate with the International Labour Organization to eradicate forced labour and was striving to uphold the basic human rights of all its citizens.

The State party should pursue and strengthen its measures aimed at eradicating child prostitution and child labour.